12 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,

The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there the spirit was to go. And the wheels were lifted up beside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows his going down.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.