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 have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Put to death therefore whatever belongs to your earthly nature: fornication, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Beloved, I urge you as strangers and 11 ¦ sojourners, abstain 𝔐9 ANTsojourners to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against your soul,
and that each of you know how to control your 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 do anything, do it all for 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 the natural function for that which is contrary to nature. In the same way the men also, having abandoned the natural function of the female, were inflamed in their lust for one another, men committing shameful acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
For a time is coming when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but having itching ears they will surround themselves with teachers to suit their own desires. They will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to myths.
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.