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 are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the affections and the desires;
Put to death, then, your members that [are] on the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—
Beloved, I call on [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war against the soul,
that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing 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.
Whether, then, you eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
and if they do not have continence—let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
Because of this God gave them up to dishonorable affections, for even their females changed the natural use into that against nature; and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, burned in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the repayment of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.
for there will be a season when they will not endure the sound teaching, but they will heap up teachers according to their own desires—having an itching ear, and, indeed, they will turn away from hearing the truth, and they will be turned aside to the fables.
you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.