2Tim.2.25

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

2Tim.2.25

working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth,

2Tim.2.25

Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,

2Tim.2.25

in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,