'Us' in the Bible

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

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

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

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.

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

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.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victorythrough our Lord Jesus Christ!