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Selected Verse: Proverbs 27:5 - Strong Concordance

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Pr 27:5 Strong Concordance Open [01540] rebuke [08433] is better [02896] than secret [05641] love [0160].
  King James Open rebuke is better than secret love.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
secret love--not manifested in acts is useless; and even, if its exhibition by rebukes wounds us, such love is preferable to the frequent (compare Margin), and hence deceitful, kisses of an enemy.
 
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18 My [3450] little children [5040], let us [25] not [3361] love [25] in word [3056], neither [3366] in tongue [1100]; but [235] in deed [2041] and [2532] in truth [225].
15 My brethren [0251] have dealt deceitfully [0898] as a brook [05158], and as the stream [0650] of brooks [05158] they pass away [05674];