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 the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
27 Now you{} are the body of Christ, and severally members of it.
15 Don't you{} know that your{} bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? God forbid.
4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same activity:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
4 [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also you{} were called in one hope of your{} calling;
16 from whom all the body being joined and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in [due] measure of each individual part, makes the increase of the body to the building up 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 firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your{} sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your{} hearts, to the which you{} also were called in one body; and be{} thankful.
29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church;30 because we are members of his body.