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, although it have many members; and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
27 Now, you are Christ's body, and members in particular.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall, I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? By no means.
4 For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;5 so we, the many, are one body under Christ, and individually members of one another.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit; as also you have been called with one hope of your calling;
16 from whom, the whole body, fitly joined together, and compacted by the service of every joint, according to the energy, in the proportion of each particular part, effects the increase 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, even the congregation. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all respects he might be pre-eminent.
24 I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up the remainder of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the congregation;
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts; to which also you are called in one body, and be thankful.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the congregation:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.