'Secretly' in the Bible

Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly.

Then Herod secretly called together the wise men, found out from them the time the star had appeared,

Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

But Paul told the guards, "The magistrates have had us beaten publicly without a trial and have thrown us into jail, even though we are Roman citizens. Now are they going to throw us out secretly? Certainly not! Have them come and escort us out."

However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus so that they might enslave us.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.