⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

13 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

²³ He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.