'Function' in the Bible
Help me understand how your precepts function, and I will meditate on your wondrous acts.
If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
"If these laws cease to function in my presence," declares the LORD, "then the descendants of Israel will cease to be a nation in my presence for all time!"
For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.
In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.
For we have many parts in one body, but these parts do not all have the same function.