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Better open reproof than the love that gives no sign. (Proverbs 27, 5)
More thanks thou wilt have, in the end, for honest reproof than for designing flattery. (Proverbs 28, 23)
Wisdom comes of reproof, comes of the rod; leave a child to go its own way, and a mother’s care is wasted. (Proverbs 29, 15)
Where is he, the just man? We must plot to be rid of him; he will not lend himself to our purposes. Ever he must be thwarting our plans; transgress we the law, he is all reproof, depart we from the traditions of our race, he denounces us. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 12)
Blame not, till thou hast heard the excuse; more just thy reproof shall be when thou hast learnt all. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 7)
A foul blot it is, to take pride in wrong-doing; a courting of death, to despise reproof; a riddance of much mischief, to forswear chattering. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 5)
Reproof there is that no good brings, as the event shews; the mistaken reproof that anger prompts in a quarrel. And a man may shew prudence by holding his tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 28)
Hospitality here, a gift there, how they blind the eyes of justice! No better gag to silence reproof. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 31)
Where reproof is unregarded, there goes the sinner; no God-fearing man but will come to a better mind. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 7)
On faithfulness, Lord, thy eyes are set. And these, when thou smitest them, are unrepentant still; when thou crushest them to earth, will not heed reproof; brows are theirs unyielding as rock, and return they will not. (Jeremiah 5, 3)
Then tell them, Here is a people who will not listen to the voice of their own God, or accept reproof from him; loyalty is dead, the word is on their lips no more. (Jeremiah 7, 28)
Be this thy message, lending all authority to thy encouragement and thy reproof. Let no man lightly esteem thee. (Titus 2, 15)
