'Except' in the Bible

for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!