correcting with self-restraint those who resist the truth. For at any time God may give them repentance, so as to recognize the truth
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King James Version
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;English Standard Version
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,New International Version
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,