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 And those who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
5 Put to death therefore your{} members which are on the earth: fornication, impurity, immoral sexual passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry;
11 Beloved, I urge you{} as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which war against the soul;
4 that each of you{} know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,5 not by immoral sexual passion, even as 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.
31 Whether therefore you{} eat, or drink, or whatever you{} do, do all to the glory of God.
9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
26 For this cause God delivered them up to immoral sexual passions of shame: for even their women changed the natural use into what is against nature:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, became passionate with each other, men with men, shamefully having sex together, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own desires;4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
3 You{} ask, and don't receive, because you{} ask amiss, that you{} may spend [it] in your{} pleasures.