20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see our desire upon Zion.

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

and he said unto them, Ye yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and yet unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean:

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold: and we would have judged him according to our law.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.