'For Us' in the Bible

So Jesus replied to him, "Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John yielded to him.

So Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Then Peter said to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"

No,' they replied. 'There won't be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'

saying, "Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

So Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters -- 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, came to him and said, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'

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

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

Then some soldiers also asked him, "And as for us -- what should we do?" He told them, "Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay."

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he was saying.

Then Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?"

Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?"

They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat."

But they all shouted out together, "Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!"

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans."

These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all -- how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

Our affection for you is not restricted, but you are restricted in your affections for us.

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree")

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

Brothers and sisters, pray for us too.

Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord's message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands -- the representation of the true sanctuary -- but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God's presence for us.

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.