^{23 Ref} and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

^{24 Ref} and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

^{25 Ref} in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,