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.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust 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 all to the glory of God.
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.