ego marks the first-person participant, whether an individual speaker or a group included with the speaker.

In the supplied verses, the term identifies a first-person individual or group within the clause: the speaker acts, receives, belongs, or is addressed in relation to others, while plural forms include a group in shared experience, possession, or action.

1. First-person reference in actions and relationships · dominant

   The nominative singular form identifies the speaker in a stated action: in 1 Corinthians 3:6 the APB renders, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth." Other forms mark personal relation or involvement, as the genitive plural appears in "our fathers" in 1 Corinthians 10:1, the genitive singular appears in "my brothers" in 1 Corinthians 11:33, and the dative plural appears in "gives us the victory" in 1 Corinthians 15:57.

   1 Corinthians 3:61 Corinthians 10:11 Corinthians 11:331 Corinthians 15:571 Corinthians 16:91 Corinthians 4:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly expresses the term through first-person wording such as "I," "my," "me," "our," and "us." These reflect the verses' first-person relations and actions, but the translation does not align each English word to a specific original-language token.