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 yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.
27 You are the body of Christ and individually members.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
4 For as in one body we have many members and the members do not all have the same function,5 so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called with one hope that belongs to your calling,
16 from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up 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. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things,
24 Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
15 Let the peace of Christ be umpire in your hearts. For this you were called into one body. And be thankful.
29 for no one ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,30 for we are members of his body.