'Members' in the Bible
For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.
I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not one wise man among you who [is governed by integrity and] will be able and competent to decide [private disputes] between his fellow believers,
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Now I urge you, brothers for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints