Proverbs 9:8

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

BSB · Berean Standard Bible

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

KJV · King James Version

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

WEB · World English Bible

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

Reprove: Proverbs 23:9; Proverbs 29:1; Numbers 14:6–10; 1 Kings 22:8; Matthew 7:6; Matthew 15:14; Hebrews 6:4–8
rebuke: Proverbs 13:18; Proverbs 28:23; Leviticus 19:17; 2 Samuel 12:7–14; 1 Kings 1:23, 32; Psalm 141:5; Galatians 2:11–14; 2 Peter 3:15, 16