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 they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,
4 That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;5 Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who 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.
31 Therefore whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
9 But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
26 Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men,27 leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward each other, men with men working filthiness, and receiving in themselves the just recompence of their error.
3 For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but will heap to themselves teachers, according to their own desires, having itching ears.4 And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.