Paixão
A Bíblia nos chama a dominar as paixões e desejos da carne. O cristão é chamado a viver pelo Espírito, crucificando as obras da carne e buscando a santidade em tudo.
Crucificar a carne
Os que são de Cristo crucificaram a carne com suas paixões e concupiscências. O domínio próprio é fruto do Espírito Santo.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Tudo para a glória de Deus
Quer comamos, quer bebamos, tudo deve ser feito para a glória de Deus. Devemos fugir das paixões que guerreiam contra a alma.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.