4 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

So, do not allow [the practice of] sin to rule your mortal bodies, so that you obey its desires.

So, I find this principle [at work]: [Although] I want to do what is good, evil is [always] present [and often wins out].

For when we were in the flesh [i.e., before conversion], our sinful desires, aroused by [the restrictions of] the law of Moses, worked in our bodies to produce activity that led to [spiritual] death.

but I see a different law [at work] in my body, waging [spiritual] warfare against the law in my mind. It brings me into captivity to the law of sin in my body.