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 they that be of Christ, have crucified their flesh with vices and covetings [or concupiscences].
Therefore slay ye your members, which be on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lechery, evil covetousness, and avarice, which is service of maumets [or simulacra];
Most dear, I beseech you, as comelings [or as guests], and pilgrims, to abstain you from fleshly desires, that fight against the soul;
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not 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.
Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or do any other thing, do ye all things to the glory of God.
And if they contain not them-selves, [or be not chaste], be they wedded; for it is better to be wedded, than to be burnt.
Therefore God betook them into passions of shame [or of evil fame]. For the women of them changed the natural use into that use that is against kind.
Also the men forsook the kindly use of women, and burned in their desires together, and men into men wrought filthhood, and received into themselves the meed that behooved of their error.
For time shall be, when men shall not suffer [or not sustain] whole-some teaching, but at their desires they shall gather together to themselves masters itching [or pleasing] to the ears.
And truly they shall turn away the hearing from truth, but to fables they shall turn.
Ye ask, and ye receive not; for that ye ask evil, as ye show openly in your covetings.