Księga Przysłów 27:5

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba

Lepsza jawna nagana niż skrywana miłość.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Lepsze jest jawne karanie, a niźli skryta miłość.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Lepsza jest przymówka jawna, niżeli miłość skryta.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Lepsza jawna przygana, niż zatajona w przyjaźni.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Lepsza jest przymówka jawna, niżeli miłość skryta.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Lepsza jest jawna nagana niż skryta miłość.

Biblia Warszawska
Lepsza jest jawna nagana, niż nieszczera miłość.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 28:23, Leviticus 19:17, Matthew 18:15, Galatians 2:14, 1 Timothy 5:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:16 - thy Genesis 21:25 - reproved Nehemiah 5:7 - I rebuked Psalms 141:5 - the righteous Proverbs 25:12 - a wise Zechariah 13:6 - I was Luke 17:3 - rebuke 1 Corinthians 11:17 - I praise 2 Corinthians 2:4 - out Titus 1:13 - rebuke

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. This is to be understood, not of rebuke publicly given; though Aben Ezra thinks public reproof is meant, which, arising from love, is better than that which is done in secret, though in love, as being more effectual; for rebuke among friends should be given privately, according to our Lord's direction, Matthew 18:15; but it signifies reproof given faithfully and plainly, with openness of heart, and without mincing the matter, and palliating the offence; but speaking out freely, and faithfully laying before a person the evil of his sin, in all the circumstances of it, as the Apostle Paul did to Peter, when he withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed, Galatians 2:11. Now such kind of reproof is better than such love to a person as will not suffer him to tell him of his faults, for fear of grieving him, or losing his friendship; or than such love as does not show itself in deeds, and particularly in faithful reproofs; for so to act is to hate a person, and suffer sin to be upon him, Leviticus 19:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Secret love - Better, love that is hidden; i. e., love which never shows itself in this one way of rebuking faults. Rebuke, whether from friend or foe, is better than such love.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:5. Open rebuke is better than secret love. — Plutarch gives an account of a man who, aiming a blow at his enemy's life, cut open an imposthume, which by a salutary discharge saved his life, that was sinking under a disease for which a remedy could not be found. Partial friendship covers faults; envy, malice, and revenge, will exhibit, heighten, and even multiply them. The former conceals us from ourselves; the latter shows us the worst part of our character. Thus we are taught the necessity of amendment and correction. In this sense open rebuke is better than secret love. Yet it is a rough medicine, and none can desire it. But the genuine open-hearted friend may be intended, who tells you your faults freely but conceals them from all others; hence the sixth verse: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend."