Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
instructing—Greek, "disciplining," instructing with correction, which those who deal in "uninstructive" or "undisciplined questions" need (see on II Timothy 2:23; I Timothy 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 'acknowledgment') of the truth" (I Timothy 2:4), their minds being corrupted (II Timothy 3:8), and their lives immoral. The cause of the spiritual ignorance which prompts such "questions" is moral, having its seat in the will, not in the intellect (John 7:17). Therefore repentance is their first need. That, not man, but God alone can "give" (Acts 5:31).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Timothy 2:25:
Galatians 6:1
Ephesians 4:2-3
1 Thessalonians 5:12
1 Timothy 3:3
2 Timothy 2:23
2 Timothy 2:26
2 Timothy 3:16
2 Timothy 4:2
Titus 2:8
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