20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them.

To the four winds he measured it: the wall to it round about, round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy to the profane.

And now many nations were gathered against thee, saying, She shall be defiled, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.

Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.

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

And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean.

And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.

And he said to them, Ye know that it is violating law for a man a Jew to join himself, or come near to a strange tribe: and God shewed me to call no man common or unclean.

And I said, By no means, Lord: for anything common or unclean never came into my month.

And a voice answered me of a second time from heaven, What God cleansed, profane not.

For ye brought these men not sacrilegious, nor blaspheming your goddess.

And who attempted to profane the temple: whom we also seized, and wished to judge according to our law.

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

And if thou shalt make to me an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them, cutting, for didst thou lift up thy sword upon it, and thou shalt defile it.

They cast thy holy place into fire, to the earth they defiled the tent of thy name.

And watch ye the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. He profaning it, dying, shall die; for all doing work in it, and that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people.