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, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
4 For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds 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 church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
29 For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,30 because we are members of his body.