| Proverbs 27:5 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Better is open rebuke Than love that is concealed. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Open criticism is better than unexpressed love.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| ASV: | Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. |
| BBE: | Better is open protest than love kept secret. |
| DBY: | Open rebuke is better than hidden love. |
| ERV: | Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. |
| JPS: | Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. |
| WBS: | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| WEB: | Better is open rebuke than hidden love. |
| YLT: | Better is open reproof than hidden love. |
| Proverbs 27:5 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 28:23 He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 27:5 Open - When it is needful, in which case, though it put a man to some shame yet it doth him good. Better - More desirable and beneficial. Secret love - Which does not shew itself by friendly actions, and particularly by free and faithful reproof. |
| MHC: | 27:1 We know not what a day may bring forth. This does not forbid preparing for to-morrow, but presuming upon to-morrow. We must not put off the great work of conversion, that one thing needful. 2. There may be occasion for us to justify ourselves, but not to praise ourselves. 3,4. Those who have no command of their passions, sink under the load. 5,6. Plain and faithful rebukes are better, not only than secret hatred, but than love which compliments in sin, to the hurt of the soul. 7. The poor have a better relish of their enjoyments, and are often more thankful for them, than the rich. In like manner the proud and self-sufficient disdain the gospel; but those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, find comfort from the meanest book or sermon that testifies of Christ Jesus. 8. Every man has his proper place in society, where he may be safe and comfortable. |
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