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.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t 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 everything for the glory of God.
But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.