Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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2 Timothy 4:2:
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience and careful instruction.
(NIV)
Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.
(AMP)
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
(KJV)
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their...
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John 16:8:
When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
(NIV)
And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment:
(AMP)
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
(KJV)
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Ephesians 5:11:
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
(NIV)
Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.
(AMP)
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
(KJV)
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Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
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Luke 17:3:
So watch yourselves. 'If a brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.'
(NIV)
Pay attention and always be on your guard [looking out for one another]. If your brother sins (misses the mark), solemnly tell him so and reprove him, and if he repents (feels sorry for having sinned), forgive him.
(AMP)
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
(KJV)
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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