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 [is] Christ.
27 And you are the body of Christ, and members in part.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? Let it not be!
4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,5 so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another.
4 [There is] one body and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
16 from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to [the] effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying 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 First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.
24 who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which [is] the church;
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also 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 loves the church.30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.