Proverbs 27:5

Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Proverbs 27

5 songs meet this passage

  • “All the love I feel for you is something I should hide”

    Here We Are · Gloria Estefan

    strains against Proverbs 27:5

    Proverbs favors open honesty over hidden affection; the song's choice to conceal love for the sake of a 'game' sits in tension with that value, though it's a minor thread here.

  • “Don't tell your friends about the two of us”

    I'm Not in Love · Will to Power

    strains against Proverbs 27:5

    Open love is better than secrecy; this line reveals a relationship built on concealment rather than honesty.

  • Don't Turn Around · Ace of Base

    strains against Proverbs 27:5

    The lyric names the cost of hidden love: the truest feeling goes unspoken while a mask of indifference is kept up instead.

  • Please Please Please · Sabrina Carpenter & Dolly Parton

    strains against Proverbs 27:5-6

    The song asks for appearances to be managed rather than honesty, while wisdom literature prizes candid love over flattering silence.

  • “I'm trying to tell you, boy, it's a mistake”

    Black Cat · Janet Jackson

    resonates with Proverbs 27:5-6

    Her blunt warning mirrors the wisdom that honest rebuke, even painful, is an act of love rather than flattery.

Elsewhere in Proverbs 27