Proverbs 28:23
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New International Version (©1984)
He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In the end, people appreciate honest criticism far more than flattery.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than he who flatters with the tongue.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whoever criticizes people will be more highly regarded in the future than the one who flatters with his tongue.

King James Bible
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

American King James Version
He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.

American Standard Version
He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Bible in Basic English
He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

Darby Bible Translation
He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

English Revised Version
He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that rebuketh a man afterward shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue.

World English Bible
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

Geneva Study Bible

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. (Compare Pr 9:8, 9; 27:5). Those benefited by reproof will love their monitors.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:18. Uprightness will give men holy security in the worst times; but the false and dishonest are never safe. 19. Those who are diligent, take the way to live comfortably. 20. The true way to be happy, is to be holy and honest; not to raise an estate suddenly, without regard to right or wrong. 21. Judgment is perverted, when any thing but pure right is considered. 22. He that hastens to be rich, never seriously thinks how quickly God may take his wealth from him, and leave him in poverty. 23. Upon reflection, most will have a better opinion of a faithful reprover than of a soothing flatterer.


Proverbs 27:5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is concealed.
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 29:5 A man who flatters his neighbor Is spreading a net for his steps. (NASB ©1995)

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He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

27:5,6 2Sa 12:7 1Ki 1:23,32-40 Ps 141:5 Mt 20:15 Mr 7:22

and Ge 13:10-13 19:17 Job 20:18-22 22:16,17

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