'For Us' in the Bible

Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him to be baptized.

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here! If You want, I will make three tabernacles here: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Then Peter responded to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You. So what will there be for us?”

“The sensible ones answered, ‘No, there won’t be enough for us and for you. Go instead to those who sell, and buy oil for yourselves.’

“Later the rest of the virgins also came and said, ‘Master, master, open up for us!’

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Him and said, “Teacher, we want You to do something for us if we ask You.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.”

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?”

He has raised up a horn of salvation for usin the house of His servant David,

As the two men were departing from Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”

“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.”

These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas,

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

What then are we to say about these things?If God is for us, who is against us?

He did not even spare His own Sonbut offered Him up for us all;how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

Who is the one who condemns?Christ Jesus is the One who died,but even more, has been raised;He also is at the right hand of Godand intercedes for us.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

yet for us there is one God, the Father.All things are from Him,and we exist for Him.And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.All things are through Him,and we exist through Him.

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your diligence for us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.

Now as you excel in everything—faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us—excel also in this grace.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

But as for us, brothers, after we were forced to leave you for a short time (in person, not in heart), we greatly desired and made every effort to return and see you face to face.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

Brothers, pray for us also.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),

since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.