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Matthew 5:29 μελῶν members

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Here: A part of the body. The point is part versus whole.

Matthew 5:30 μελῶν members

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

Here: Body parts or limbs. The body is pictured as a whole made of parts, and one part can be given up.

Romans 6:13 μέλη μέλη members

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

Here: The literal parts of the body: hands, feet, eyes, tongue and so on. It follows 6:12's "your mortal body" and probably stands for every bodily ability a person has. It has nothing to do with membership in a group.

Romans 6:19 μέλη μέλη members

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Here: The limbs and parts of the body: hands, feet, tongue, eyes. In effect the whole embodied self in action. It has nothing to do with membership.

Romans 7:5 μέλεσιν members

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

Here: The parts of the body: hands, feet, tongue, eyes. In Romans 6:13 and 6:19 these are the tools or "weapons" a person puts at the service of either sin or God.

Romans 7:23 μέλεσίν μέλεσίν members

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

Here: "Limbs, body parts": hands, feet, tongue, eyes. These are the parts that actually carry out actions. Romans 6:13 has already spoken of these same parts as weapons.

Romans 12:4 μέλη μέλη members, the members

Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,

Here: Arms, legs, eyes, organs: the working parts of a body. It is an anatomical word, not a word for being enrolled in a group.

Romans 12:5 μέλη.¶ members.

so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

Here: Limbs and organs: hands, feet, eyes. Each is a living part that works only while it is attached to the rest. It picks up "many members" from v.4.

1 Corinthians 6:15 μέλη μέλη μέλη; members, members?

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

Here: Limbs or parts of a body: arms, legs, organs. Their bodies are Christ's own limbs, a picture of physical belonging, not of being enrolled in a group.

1 Corinthians 12:12 μέλη μέλη members

The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

Here: The limbs and organs of a body: hand, foot, eye, ear, the very examples Paul lists in verses 15–21. They are living parts of the body, not individuals who have signed up to it.

1 Corinthians 12:14 μέλος member

For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

1 Corinthians 12:18 μέλη, members,

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

Here: Physical parts of a body: hands, feet, eyes, ears. It does not mean 'members' in the sense of people on a club's register.

1 Corinthians 12:19 μέλος, member,

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

1 Corinthians 12:20 μέλη, [are the] members,

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

1 Corinthians 12:22 μέλη members

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

1 Corinthians 12:25 μέλη· members;

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

Here: Limbs or body parts: eyes, hands, feet and the 'less honorable' parts of vv. 22–24. English 'members' has drifted toward 'people on a membership list', but here the word keeps its bodily sense.

1 Corinthians 12:26 μέλος, μέλη· μέλος, μέλη.¶ member,, members;, members.

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Here: A limb or organ of a living body, like a hand, an eye or a foot (vv. 15–21). It does not mean someone on a list. It is a part that only lives as part of the whole.

1 Corinthians 12:27 μέλη members

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

Here: Limbs or organs of a body, like the foot, hand, eye and ear Paul has just listed (12:15–21). It is a word about anatomy, not about enrolment in an organisation.

Ephesians 4:25 μέλη. members.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

Here: Body parts: limbs and organs. The picture is one body (4:4, 4:12, 4:16). Lying to a fellow believer is like one part of a body feeding false signals to another.

Ephesians 5:30 μέλη members

For we are members of His body.

Here: Limbs and organs of a living body: hands, feet, eyes. Put first in the Greek clause for emphasis: "*limbs* is what we are." It is a picture of being part of a living body, not of having your name on a list.

Colossians 3:5 μέλη members

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Here: Literally the parts of a body: hands, feet, eyes. Paul then names the vices as if they were these limbs, so the picture is cutting off and killing body parts that belong to the old way of life.

James 3:5 μέλος member

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

Here: One part of the physical body. James is thinking of the whole body (3:2, 3:6): the tongue is one small part that affects all the rest.

James 3:6 μέλεσιν members

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Here: The body's parts. It repeats verse 5's 'small member'. The small part is set among the others and spoils them all.

James 4:1 μέλεσιν members

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

Here: The parts of the human body: limbs, organs, faculties. It means the whole embodied person, the hands that grab, the tongue that attacks (compare 3:5–6). It is not "members" of a church.