^25 (A)with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, ^(B)if perhaps God may give them repentance leading to ^(C)the full knowledge of the truth,

⁷ always learning and never able to ^(A)come to the ^[a]full knowledge of the truth.

Greetings and Grace

1 Paul, ^(A)a slave of God and an ^(B)apostle of Jesus Christ, ^[a]for the faith of God’s ^(C)elect and ^(D)the full knowledge of the truth which is ^(E)according to godliness,

Warning Against Willful Sin

²⁶ For if we go on ^(A)sinning willfully after receiving ^(B)the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,