'Us' in the Bible

who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, as we ourselves are being comforted by God.

For as the Messiah's sufferings overflow into us, so also our comfort overflows through the Messiah.

He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,

as you also help us by your prayers for us. Then many people will thank God on our behalf because of the favor shown us through the prayers of many.

just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.

For God's Son, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached among you by us by me, Silvanus, and Timothy was not "Yes" and "No." But with him it is always "Yes."

Now the one who makes us and you as well secure in union with the Messiah and has anointed us is God,

who has placed his seal on us and has given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

But thanks be to God! He always leads us triumphantly by the Messiah and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of knowing him.

By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.

Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown to us, we do not get discouraged.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.

But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

And so death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

God has prepared us for this and has given us his Spirit as a guarantee.

For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.

We are not recommending ourselves to you again but are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who are proud of outward things rather than inward character.

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us.

Therefore, we are the Messiah's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah's behalf: "Be reconciled to God!"

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.

We have not cut you off, but you have cut off your own feelings toward us.

Do us a favor I ask you as my children and open wide your hearts.

Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone.

Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing for me, your sorrow, and your eagerness to take my side, and this made me even happier.

Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way.

So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God.

This is what comforted us. In addition to our own comfort, we were even more delighted at the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been set at rest by all of you.

They begged us earnestly for the privilege of participating in this ministry to the saints.

We did not expect that! They gave themselves to the Lord first and then to us, since this was God's will.

Indeed, the more your faith, speech, knowledge, enthusiasm, and love for us increase, the more we want you to be rich in this work of kindness.

More than that, he has also been selected by the churches to travel with us while we are administering this work of kindness for the glory of the Lord and as evidence of our eagerness to help.

In every way you will grow richer and become even more generous, and this will cause others to give thanks to God because of us,

So if I boast a little too much about our authority, which the Lord gave us to build you up and not to tear you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.