12 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;

Hence, I find the law, to me who wish to be doing the right, that, unto me, the wrong lieth near:

For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;

But I behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members: -

And the living ones ran and returned, - like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:

Yet through all the earth, hath gone forth their voice, - and, to the end of the world, their sayings, - For the sun, hath he set up a tent therein;

The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on the rock, - the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.

Howbeit, thine abode and thy coming out and thy going in, I know, - and thy raging against me.

whithersoever the spirit was minded to go, they went - thither was the spirit minded to go, - and the wheels would be lifted up along with them, for the spirit of the living one was in the wheels:

He hath made the moon for seasons, And, the sun, knoweth his place for entering in.

All the streams, flow into the sea, yet, the sea, is not full, - unto the place whither the streams flow, thither, do they again flow.