My attention was caught by a kitten who was trying to enter a fence made of cyclone wire. Her head got entangled by the wires. She just cried due to the pain and couldn’t get her head out. So, I tried to help her by twisting her head gently, though she might be hurt just to get her head out.
There is a saying, “Sometimes it takes pain to make us change our ways”. We are hesitant to speak the truth to a person we care for fear that she or he might get hurt. But if you love someone, you have to tell him or her what is right. Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
(1 Corinthians 13:6 KJV)
For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
(3 John 1:3-4 KJV)
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (Proverbs 27:5-6 KJV)
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
(Proverbs 12:18 KJV)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 KJV)
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
(Ephesians 5:13-17 KJV)
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
(Proverbs 15:23 KJV)
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
(Ephesians 4:15-16 KJV)
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
(Proverbs 15:10 KJV)
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
(Proverbs 15:12 KJV)
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
(Proverbs 9:8-10 KJV)
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
(John 3:19-21 KJV)
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
(1 Timothy 6:3-4 KJV)
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
(Psalms 119:105 KJV)
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
(Proverbs 3:12 KJV)
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
(Job 5:17 KJV)
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