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.
Just like the human body is one unit but has many parts—all the parts of the body even though there are many of them, make up one body—so is Christ.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one makes up a part of it.
Don’t you know your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and join them to a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Just as there are many parts to the body, but they don’t all do the same thing, so we are one body in Christ, even though we are many—and we all belong to one another.
For there’s one body, and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope.
It’s because of him that the whole body operates, every joint holding it together as each individual part does what it’s supposed to, and the whole body grows, building itself 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.
He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, having the highest position of those raised from the dead, so that he is supreme in everything.
I’m happy to have trouble for your sake, for by means of what happens to me physically I’m part of Christ’s sufferings that he continues to experience for the sake of his body, the church.
May the peace of Christ direct your thinking, because you were called to this by God who makes you one, and thank God for it!
for no one ever hated his own body, but feeds it and looks after it, just as Christ does for the church, for we are parts of his body.