20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

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, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their ey

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, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.

Her prophets are airy and treacherous men. 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 the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

And having seen some of his disciples eating their loaves with profane hands, that is, unwashed, they accused them.

Then the Pharisees and the scholars demand of him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?

But Peter said, Not so, Lord, because I have never eaten anything profane or unclean.

And a voice again for a second time, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.

And he said to them, Ye understand how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to fraternize or to visit with a foreign man, and yet God demonstrated to me not to call one man profane or unclean.

But I said, Not so, Lord, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.

But a voice answered me for a second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.

For ye brought these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blaspheming your goddess.

who also attempted to profane the temple, whom also we took,

knowing this, that law is not laid down for righteous men, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreverent and sinful, for the impious and profane, for father killers and mother killers, for man killers,

And if thou make to me an altar of stone, thou shall not build it of hewn stones, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou have polluted it.

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

Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death, for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.