who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Greeting

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,