'For Us' in the Bible
But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.
And Peter made answer and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will let me, I will make here three tents, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves.
And Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.
And they were saying among themselves, Who will get the stone rolled away from the door for us?
Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
Salvation from those who are against us, and from the hands of those who have hate for us;
It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.
And when they were about to go away from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah: having no knowledge of what he was saying.
Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?
And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.
Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.
If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.
And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.
But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,
But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?
And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.
There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,
And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;
So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;
For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.
Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
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