2 Timothy 2:25 | |
NASB: with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, (NASB ©1995) GWT: He must be gentle in correcting those who oppose the Good News. Maybe God will allow them to change the way they think and act and lead them to know the truth. (GOD'S WORD®) KJV: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; ASV: in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, BBE: Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, DBY: in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth, WEY: He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth WBS: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth: WEB: in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, YLT: in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, | |
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