2 Timothy
King James Version (KJV)


“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;”
King James Version (KJV)
2:25 In meekness - He has often need of zeal, always of meekness. If haply God - For it is wholly his work. May give them repentance - The acknowledging of the truth would then quickly follow.
2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing them that oppose themselves. Opposers must be corrected, but not rudely; rather gently, kindly, humbly. If God peradventure will give them repentance. God gives repentance often by providences which lead to repentance.
In meekenesse instructing those that oppose themselues, if God peraduenture will giue them repentance to the acknowledging of the trueth.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
- New American Standard Version (1995)
in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
- American Standard Version (1901)
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
- Basic English Bible
He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of [the] truth,
- Darby Bible
With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth,
- Douay-Rheims Bible
in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
- English Revised Version
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
- World English Bible