'Members' in the Bible

Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba's household were Mephibosheth's servants.

So the king and all the members of his royal court set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines to attend to the palace.

Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."' Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha's family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, "Wound me!" But the man refused to wound him.

Some members of the prophetic guild in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, "Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?" He answered, "Yes, I know. Be quiet."

Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, "Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?" He answered, "Yes, I know. Be quiet."

The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha stood by the Jordan.

When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, who were standing at a distance, saw him do this, they said, "The spirit that energized Elijah rests upon Elisha." They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab's family who were still alive in Samaria, just as the Lord had announced to Elijah.

but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. You also killed your brothers, members of your father's family, who were better than you.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them, "Have some wine."

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

For members of Chloe's household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

So now there are many members, but one body.

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

for we are members of his body.