4 Bible Verses about Going Through the Motions

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.