Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favorthan one who flatters with the tongue.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
In Context
22A stingy man hurries after riches,and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong."He is a partner with a destroyer.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:7Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kings 1:32King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.
Job 32:22For I do not know how to give flattering titles;or else my Maker would soon take me away.
Proverbs 27:5Better is open rebukethan hidden love.
Matthew 18:15"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
2 Peter 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:23
22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. Here again Solomon shows the sin and folly of those that will be rich; they are resolved that they will be so, per fas, per nefas — right or wrong; they will be so with all speed; they are getting hastily an estate. 1. They have no comfort in it: They have an evil eye, that is, they are always grieving at those that have more than they, and always grudging their necessary expenses, because they think the former… Read the whole commentary →