20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall round about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, 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 profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Her prophets are vain-glorious, treacherous persons; her priests profane the sanctuary, they do violence to the law.

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

and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands,

then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.

And there was a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

And he said to them, Ye know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to me God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.

And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.

And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

For ye have brought these men, who are neither temple-plunderers, nor speak injuriously of your goddess.

who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, and would have judged according to our law;

knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

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

They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

Keep the sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall certainly be put to death: yea, whoever doeth work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples.