'Us' in the Bible

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.

For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--

to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.

the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us,

when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose

and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers as seen in the working of His infinite might

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest prayers or thoughts--

Yet to each of us individually grace was given, measured out with the munificence of Christ.

till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

I have sent him to you for the very purpose--that you may know about us and that he may encourage you.