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,

KJV: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging 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,
