4 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.