Bible Verses About Rebuking
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for rebuking, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,178 votes, led by Proverbs 27:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Rebuking
Proverbs 27:5277 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Matthew 18:15-17277 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
1 Timothy 5:20247 votes
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Galatians 6:1224 votes
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Titus 2:15207 votes
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
2 Timothy 4:2191 votes
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2 Timothy 3:16-17150 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
James 5:20140 votes
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Luke 17:3-4131 votes
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Proverbs 1:23119 votes
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 27:6117 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Hebrews 4:12107 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Revelation 3:19107 votes
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
1 Timothy 5:1104 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Proverbs 29:15100 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
2 Timothy 3:1693 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Proverbs 9:8-988 votes
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Jude 1:982 votes
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Mark 16:1477 votes
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Leviticus 19:1768 votes
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
1 Corinthians 5:1267 votes
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
Zechariah 3:265 votes
And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
1 Corinthians 5:11-1359 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Proverbs 12:158 votes
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Matthew 17:1858 votes
And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
What does the Bible say about rebuking?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 27:5 on the subject of rebuking. Across 5,178 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 18:15-17, 1 Timothy 5:20, Galatians 6:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.