But I was # 44_ACT_22_28 # And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born. 
But I was # 24_JER_11_19 # But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. 
but I was # 30_AMO_07_14 # Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit: