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.
For as there is one body, and hath many members, and all the members of the body when those [or they] be many, be one body, so also Christ.
And ye be the body of Christ, and members of member.
Know ye not, that your bodies be members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and shall I make them the members of a whore? God forbid.
For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same deed [or the same act];
so we many be one body in Christ, and each be members one of another.
One body and one Spirit, as ye be called in one hope of your calling;
of whom all the body set together, and bound together by each jointure of under-serving, by working into the measure of each member, maketh increasing of the body, into [the] edification of itself in charity.
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.
And he is head of the body of the church; which is the beginning, [or the first of all], and the first begotten of dead men, that he hold the first dignity [or primacy], in all things.
and now I have joy in passion for you, and I [ful] fill those things that fail of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his body, that is the church.
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.