Proverbs 9:8

New International Version

⁸Do not rebuke mockers^(A) or they will hate you;
rebuke the wise and they will love you.^(B)

Proverbs 9:8

King James Version

⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁹Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still;
teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.^(A)

⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

⁵Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.

⁵Open rebuke is better than secret love.

New International Version (NIV)