reprove not a scorner lest he hate you rebuke a wise man and he will love you
1REBUKE AND REPROOF — (Heb. tokhaḥah), admonition and chastisement for the purpose of restraint or correction. The biblical source for the duty to rebuke the wrongdoer is: You shall not hate your kinsman in your heart. Reprove your neighbor, but incur no guilt because …
