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title: "Proverbs 27:5-27 KJV - \"Open rebuke is better than secret love...\" | Real Bible Believers"
description: "\"Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The full so\" — Read Proverbs 27:5-27 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Proverbs 27:5-27 in Context (Verses 2–27 KJV)
 
 [2 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/2) Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/3) A stone *is* heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath *is* heavier than them both.*
 
 [4 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/4) Wrath *is* cruel, and anger *is* outrageous; but who *is* able to stand before envy?**
 
 [5 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/5) Open rebuke *is* better than secret love.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/6) Faithful *are* the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy *are* deceitful.*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/7) The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/8) As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so *is* a man that wandereth from his place.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/9) Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so *doth* the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/10) Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: *for* better *is* a neighbour *that is* near than a brother far off.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/11) My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/12) A prudent *man* foreseeth the evil, *and* hideth himself; *but* the simple pass on, *and* are punished.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/13) Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/14) He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/15) A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/16) Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, *which* bewrayeth *itself*.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/17) Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/18) Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/19) As in water face *answereth* to face, so the heart of man to man.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/20) Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/21) *As* the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so *is* a man to his praise.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/22) Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, *yet* will not his foolishness depart from him.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/23) Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, *and* look well to thy herds.*
 
 [24 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/24) For riches *are* not for ever: and doth the crown *endure* to every generation?**
 
 [25 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/25) The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/26) The lambs *are* for thy clothing, and the goats *are* the price of the field.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/proverbs/27/27) And *thou shalt have* goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and *for* the maintenance for thy maidens.*
 
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