Dennis Wiles

Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says,…

Do not boast about tomorrow,     for you do not know what a day may bring. 2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;     an outsider, and not your own lips. 3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden,     but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. 4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,     but who…

3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you,so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and…

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did…

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no…