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 just as the body is one and has many parts, but all the parts of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] members of a harlot? By no means!
4 For just as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,5 so we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself 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 church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things He may have the preeminence;
24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the church,
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Lord does the church.30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.