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 and are one body, so also is Christ.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with turn them into the members of a prostitute? God forbid!
4 For we have many members in one body and all members do not have the same function.5 These many members are one body in Christ, and every one, individually, is a member one of the other.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling.
16 The entire body is properly framed and fitted together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each individual part. It makes the body increase by building 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 He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning commencement, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence first place.
24 I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. You were called in one body for this purpose. You be thankful.
29 No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.30 And we are members of his body!