'Us' in the Bible

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.

And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.

And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

And when he came up with us at Assos, we took him in the ship and went on to Mitylene.

And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us.

And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer.

And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.

And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.

Then they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of.

Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.

And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.

Give my love to Urbanus, a worker in Christ with us, and to my dear Stachys.

For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.

And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.

And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.