Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
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