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, as the body is one, and in it are many members, but all the members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Meshiha.
27 But you are the body of the Meshiha, and members in your place.
15 Know you not that your bodies are members of the Meshiha? Shall one take a member of the Meshiha to make it a member of a harlot? Never!
4 For as in one body we have many members, and as all the members have not one work,5 so also we who are many are one body in the Meshiha; but we are each of us members one of another.
4 that you may be in one body and in one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling.
16 who is the head, by whom the whole body is increased and compacted in all the limbs, according to the gift which is given in proportion to every member for the increase of the body itself, that in love its structure might be completed.
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 of the church, (he) who is the chief and first-born from among the dead, that he should be preeminent in all.
24 I rejoice in the sufferings which are on your account, and fulfil the void of the afflictions of the Meshiha in my flesh for the sake of his body,
15 And let the peace of the Meshiha direct your hearts, for to it you have been called in one body; and give thanks to the Meshiha,
29 For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also the Meshiha (taketh care) of the church.30 For we are members of his body, and of his flesh are we, and of his bones.