12 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.

So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].

but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.

And the living beings moved rapidly back and forth like flashes of lightning.

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,

The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
And the way of a man with a maid.

“But I know your sitting down
And your going out and your coming in [every detail of your life],
And your raging against Me.

Wherever the spirit went, the beings went in that direction. And the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit or life of the living beings was in the wheels.

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the [exact] place of its setting.

All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.