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 has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? In no wise.
4 For in the manner that we have many members in one body, nevertheless all the members do not have the same operation;5 likewise many of us are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
4 [There is] one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling,
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and [well] tied together among itself by the nourishment that every [connecting] bond supplies, by the operation of each member according to measure they have received, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in charity.
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, that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.
24 who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which [is] lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the church,
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which likewise ye are called into one body, and be ye thankful.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his church:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.