Translations
correcting opponents with gentleness — for perhaps God will grant them a change of heart and bring them into the full knowledge of truth,
gently correcting those who oppose, in case Elohim may grant them repentance leading to full knowledge of the truth,
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

