feeling or emotion. Mention is made of "vile affections" (Ro 1:26) and "inordinate affection" (Col 3:5). Christians are exhorted to set their affections on things above (Col 3:2). There is a distinction between natural and spiritual or gracious affections (Eze 33:32).
Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
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