'Seems' in the Bible

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.