Vícios
A Bíblia nos alerta contra os vícios e comportamentos destrutivos. Deus nos chama à liberdade em Cristo, não à escravidão de desejos e hábitos que consomem corpo e alma.
A escravidão do pecado
Todo vício é uma forma de escravidão. Jesus veio para libertar os cativos e restaurar a verdadeira liberdade dos filhos de Deus.
Jesus answered to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, each man that doeth sin, is [the] servant of sin.
Therefore if the Son make you free, verily, ye shall be free.
Therefore if the Son make you free, verily, ye shall be free.
Therefore Jesus said to the Jews, that believed in him, If ye dwell in my word, verily, ye shall be my disciples;
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Stand ye therefore, and do not ye again be held in the yoke of servage.
Know ye not, that to whom ye give you servants to obey to, ye be servants of that thing, to which ye have obeyed, either of sin to death, either of obedience to rightwiseness?
Resistência e domínio próprio
O fruto do Espírito inclui o domínio próprio. O cristão é chamado a ter controle sobre seus desejos, resistir à tentação e vigiar contra as obras da carne.
envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God.
temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.
All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but I shall not be brought down under any man’s power.
All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but I shall not be brought down under any man’s power.
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servage [or servitude]; lest peradventure when I preach to others, I myself be made reprovable.
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
Wake ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation; for the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick, [or unstable, or unsteadfast].
Therefore be ye subject to God; but withstand ye the devil, and he shall flee from you.
witting that the proving of your faith worketh patience;
Libertação e renovação
Em Cristo somos libertos de toda forma de dependência. Pela renovação da mente, aprendemos a discernir e rejeitar o que nos prende.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.
And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
So ye deem yourselves to be dead to sin, but living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore reign not sin in your deadly body, that ye obey to his covetings.
Neither give ye your members arms of wickedness to sin, but give ye yourselves to God, as they that live of dead men, and your members arms of rightwiseness to God.
For if we planted together be made to the likeness of his death, also we shall be of the likeness of his rising again;
witting this thing, that our old man is crucified together, that the body of sin be destroyed, that we serve no more to sin.
For the grace of God, our Saviour, hath appeared to all men,
and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
that that is left now of time in flesh live not now to the desires of men, but to the will of God.
For the time that is passed is enough to the will of heathen men to be ended, which walked in lecheries, and lusts, in much drinking of wine, in unmeasurable [or oft] eatings, and drinkings, and unleaveful worshipping of maumets [or of idols].
In which now they be astonied, in which thing they wonder, for ye run not together into the same confusion of lechery, and blaspheme.
And they shall give reason to him, that is ready to deem the quick and the dead.
For why for this thing it is preached [or it is evangelized] also to dead men, that they be deemed by men in flesh, and that they live by God in Spirit.
For the end of all things shall nigh. Therefore be ye prudent, and wake ye in prayers;
If we say, that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.
He that hideth his great trespasses, shall not be made rightful; but he that acknowledgeth and forsaketh them, shall get mercy.
O corpo como templo
Nosso corpo é templo do Espírito Santo. Devemos honrar a Deus com o corpo, fugindo da embriaguez, da imoralidade e de toda impureza.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?
Whether ye know not, that wicked men shall not wield the kingdom of God? Do not ye err; neither lechers, neither men that serve maumets [or idols], neither adulterers, neither lechers against kind, neither they that do lechery with men,
neither thieves, neither avaricious [or covetous] men, neither men full of drunkenness, neither cursers, neither raveners, shall wield the kingdom of God.
And ye were sometime these things; but ye be washed, but ye be hallowed, but ye be justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;
Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.
Do not thou yet drink water, but use a little wine, for thy stomach, and for thine oft-falling infirmities.
For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.
Ye be salt of the earth; that if the salt vanish away, wherein shall it be salted? To nothing it is worth over, but that it be cast out, and be defouled of men.
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
For it is written, I live, saith the Lord, for to me each knee shall be bowed, and each tongue shall acknowledge to God.
Therefore each of us shall yield reason to God for himself.