'Except' in the Bible

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,