Open rebuke is better than secret love. Open rebuke is better than secret love - is better than the love which is hidden in the heart, and does not perform the outward offices of love, in aiding, amending, 'rebuking' a friend in error, through fear of offending him. "Open" - i:e., outspoken; not necessarily public rebuke (Matthew 18:15; Proverbs 28:23).
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Proverbs 27:5
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.