'Us' in the Bible

But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;

For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, including the depths of the divine nature.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.

Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us, but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do, spiritual words to spiritual truths.

the true character of each individual's work will become manifest. For the day of Christ will disclose it, because that day is soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality of every one's work-- the fire is the thing which will test it.

As for us Apostles, let any one take this view of us--we are Christ's officers, and stewards of God's secret truths.

Every one of you already has all that heart can desire; already you have grown rich; without waiting for us, you have ascended your thrones! Yes indeed, would to God that you had ascended your thrones, that we also might reign with you!

God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.

and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand--because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do--and the Lord's brothers and Peter?

And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.

And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.

All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.

Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.

But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.

But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.

But these results are all brought about by one and the same Spirit, who bestows His gifts upon each of us in accordance with His own will.

For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us--whether we are Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free men--were baptized to form but one body; and we were all nourished by that one Spirit.

If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.

And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.

but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!