Topic

Rebuke

100 verses · ranked by helpfulness

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

2 Timothy 4:2

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

Proverbs 1:23

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Luke 17:3–4

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 5:20

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Leviticus 19:17

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

James 5:20

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Titus 2:15

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Zephaniah 3:17

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

1 Corinthians 5:11–13

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 5:1

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Proverbs 10:17

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

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.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Proverbs 13:1–18:24

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:11–12

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:17–18

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:14–16

Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →

Matthew 18:15–17

“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. — read the full passage →

Revelation 3:1–19:21

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

Proverbs 1:1–23:35

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Luke 17:3

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

2 Timothy 3:16–17

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 5:12

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

Proverbs 29:15

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Mark 16:14

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

Jude 1:9

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

Titus 1:13

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Proverbs 9:8–9

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Zechariah 3:2

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Matthew 17:18

Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

James 4:7

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Proverbs 9:8

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Micah 4:3

and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.

Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Isaiah 2:4

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Psalms 119:21

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Matthew 16:23

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Ezekiel 33:8–9

When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:10–18

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 28:23

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

2 Timothy 2:24–25

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:12

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

James 1:1–5:20

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 5:19–20

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses. — read the full passage →

Luke 9:42

While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Matthew 7:1

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Isaiah 1:1–17:14

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Malachi 3:11

I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Proverbs 10:1–17:28

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

1 Timothy 5:1–2

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Galatians 2:11–14

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

John 16:24

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Matthew 4:1–11

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 25:12

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

1 John 4:4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

2 Timothy 3:7

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Corinthians 10:3–5

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Mark 9:25

When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

Matthew 18:15–20

“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. — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 3:16–21

At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Psalms 80:16

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

2 Thessalonians 3:14–15

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Galatians 2:11

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Luke 4:41

Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Proverbs 3:12

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Psalms 104:7

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

John 8:31–32

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Matthew 7:13–14

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 17:10

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Ecclesiastes 9:17

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.