Corpo de Cristo
A Igreja é o Corpo de Cristo — organismo vivo onde cada membro tem função única e indispensável. Cristo é a cabeça; nós somos seus membros.
Um corpo, muitos membros
Assim como o corpo é um e tem muitos membros, assim é Cristo. Nós somos o corpo de Cristo e individualmente seus membros.
12 For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also {is} the Christ.
27 Now *ye* are Christ's body, and members in particular.
15 Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make {them} members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
4 For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;5 thus we, {being} many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.
4 {There is} one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;
16 from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to {the} working in {its} measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.
Cristo, a cabeça
Ele é a cabeça do corpo, que é a igreja. O corpo cresce e se edifica em amor quando cada parte faz o seu trabalho.
18 And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is {the} beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:
24 Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;
15 And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.
29 For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:30 for we are members of his body; {we are of his flesh, and of his bones.}