Correction and Rebuke are Blessings from God

There are many people now who believe we should never correct someone else. My guess is that these same people don't want to be corrected. I am not afraid of correction, if someone does so with me I evaluate whether or not it is true without being offended. If I am wrong I will correct my sins and mistakes, if I am not guilty then I will dismiss the criticism.

Criticisms are blessings from God, they either make us stronger when we have been falsely accused or they redirect us when we have been wrong about something. Those who refuse to be corrected most often remain childlike in their life experience. Everyone must be corrected, rebukes and retrained if they are to grow into mature adults.

1 Timothy 5:20
"As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear."

We are to correct, rebuke and admonish daily those who are born again believers. To not do so is to enable them to continue in sin. We are responsible for those who are in the body.

2 Timothy 4:2
"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching."

James 5:20
"Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins."

Carmen, there is no scriptural basis for not speaking to others about their flaws and sins. If we love them we speak the truth, there must be support for obedience and lack of support for disobedience.

Ezekiel 33:8-9 "…8 If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. 9 But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life."

I was once told by an older woman that I should not tell people they are wrong, while she was in the process of telling me I was wrong for telling others they were wrong. The belief that we should not rebuke or correct people cannot be consistent. At some point, those who believe we should not correct others will be speaking hypocritically because life is full of correction. IF we love people we will obey God and correct them.