we had been # 47_2CO_11_21 # I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, [I speak foolishly,] I am bold also. we had been # 17_EST_07_04 # For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. we had been # 06_JOS_07_07 # And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! we had been # 40_MAT_23_30 # And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. we had been # 45_ROM_09_29 # And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.