'Us' in the Bible

the Life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness, and we declare unto you the Life of the Ages which was with the Father and was manifested to us--

that which we have seen and listened to we now announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship in it with us, and this fellowship with us is fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

But if we live in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

They have gone forth from our midst, but they did not really belong to us; for had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us that it might be manifest that professed believers do not all belong to us.

And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have perfect confidence towards God;

And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.

The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

We love because God first loved us.

And that testimony is to the effect that God has given us the Life of the Ages, and that this Life is in His Son.

And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.

And since we know that He listens to us, then whatever we ask, we know that we have the things which we have asked from Him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One--that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.