Gen 20:16
And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand {pieces} of silver: behold, he {is} to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that {are} with thee, and with all {other}: thus she was reproved.
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Open rebuke {is} better than secret love.
Said he not unto me, She {is} my sister? and she, even she herself said, He {is} my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. {integrity: or, simplicity, or, sincerity}
For she {had} said unto the servant, What man {is} this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant {had} said, It {is} my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they {be}: but, my lord the king, {are} they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
And Abimelech charged all {his} people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
{As} an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, {so is} a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand {pieces} of silver.
For she {had} said unto the servant, What man {is} this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant {had} said, It {is} my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
For this cause ought the woman to have power on {her} head because of the angels. {power: that is a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband}