New Revised Standard Version
correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,

Contemporary English Version
Be humble when you correct people who oppose you. Maybe God will lead them to turn to him and learn the truth.

New American Bible
correcting opponents with kindness. It may be that God will grant them repentance that leads to knowledge of the truth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

In.

Matthew 11:29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

instructing.

Jeremiah 13:15-17 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. . . .

Jeremiah 26:12-15 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes, and to all the people, saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city all the words that you have heard. . . .

John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved.

Acts 22:1-30 Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you. . . .

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if.

Jeremiah 31:18,19,33 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. . . .

Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:

Ezekiel 36:26,31 And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. . . .

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

Acts 5:21 Who having heard this, early in the morning, entered into the temple and taught. And the high priest coming, and they that were with him, called together the council and all the ancients of the children of Israel: and they sent to the prison to have them brought.

Acts 11:18 Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

1 John 5:16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

peradventure.

Acts 8:22 Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

repentance.

2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.

Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

Mark 1:3,4,15 A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. . . .

Acts 2:38 But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness: