'Except' in the Bible

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;