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.
24 For those that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul
4 that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honesty,5 not with affection of lust, as 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.
31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do everything for the glory of God.
9 But if they do not have [the gift of] continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto shameful affections, for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;27 and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, they shall heap up unto themselves teachers who shall speak to them according to their own lusts,4 and thus they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth and shall return unto fables.
3 Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your pleasures.