~ but as it were ~ 43_JOH_07_10  But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. #, 43_JOH_21_08  And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes. #, 45_ROM_09_32  Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; #, 47_2CO_11_17  That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. #,