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 just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
15 You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!
4 For even as we have many members in one body, and not all members have the same function;5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.
4 There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.
16 From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
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 He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.
24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.
15 Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;30 for we are members of his body.