2 Timothy 2:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

2 Timothy 2:25 —

Old words in this verse

peradventure: — perhaps, maybe.

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Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-26)

I. Paul here exhorts Timothy to beware of youthful lusts, 2 Tim. 2:22. Though he was a holy good man, very much mortified to the world, yet Paul thought it necessary to caution him against youthful lusts: “ Flee them, take all possible care and pains to keep thyself pure from them.” The lusts of the flesh are youthful lusts, which young people must carefully watch against, and the best must not be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. instructing--Greek, “disciplining,” instructing with correction, which those who deal in “uninstructive” or “undisciplined questions” need (see on 2Ti 2:23; 1Ti 1:20). those that oppose themselves--Greek, “oppositely affected”; those of a different opinion. if ... peradventure--Greek, “if at any time.” repentance--which they need as antecedent to the full knowledge (so the Greek for ‘acknowled…