'Except' in the Bible
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
And just as Isaiah foretold,“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity,We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,