4 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.