Psalm 141:5
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5 Let the righteous strike me;
let the faithful correct me.
Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head,[a]
for my prayer is continually[b] against their wicked deeds.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.(A)
Revelation 3:19
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19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)
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Galatians 6:1
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Bear One Another’s Burdens
6 My brothers and sisters, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
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Proverbs 27:5-6
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5 Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.(A)
6 Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts,
but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 25:12
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12 Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold
is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.(A)
Proverbs 19:25
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25 Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.(A)
Galatians 2:11-14
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Paul Rebukes Peter at Antioch
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood self-condemned,(A) 12 for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.(B) 13 And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”[a](C)
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Proverbs 15:5
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5 A fool despises a parent’s instruction,
but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.(A)
Proverbs 9:8-9
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8 Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you;
rebuke the wise, and he will love you.(A)
9 Give instruction[a] to the wise, and they will become wiser still;
teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.(B)
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Proverbs 6:23
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23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,(A)
Matthew 5:44
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44 But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,(A)
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2 Chronicles 25:16
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16 But as he was speaking, the king[a] said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”
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1 Samuel 25:31-34
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31 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for having saved himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”
32 David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!(A) 33 Blessed be your good sense, and blessed be you, who kept me today from bloodguilt and from avenging myself by my own hand! 34 For as surely as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there would not have been left to Nabal so much as one male.”
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James 5:14-16
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14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.(A) 15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up, and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.(B)
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Proverbs 15:22
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22 Without counsel, plans go wrong,
but with many advisers they succeed.(A)
Psalm 125:4
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4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good
and to those who are upright in their hearts.(A)
Psalm 51:18
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18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;(A)
Psalm 23:5
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5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.(A)
2 Chronicles 16:7-10
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7 At that time the seer Hanani came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped you.(A) 8 Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army with exceedingly many chariots and cavalry? Yet because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.(B) 9 For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the entire earth to strengthen those whose heart is true to him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”(C) 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties on some of the people at the same time.
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2 Samuel 12:7-13
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7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul;(A) 8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more. 9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.(B) 10 Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.(C) 11 Thus says the Lord: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.(D) 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight.”(E) 13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.(F)
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2 Timothy 1:16-18
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16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;(A) 17 when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly[a] searched for me and found me 18 —may the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well how much service he rendered in Ephesus.(B)
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