12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

and when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands:

then the Pharisees and the scribes asked him: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

But Peter said: By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing common or unclean.

And the voice came to him again a second time: What God has cleansed, you must not call common.

And he said to them: You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with one of another nation, or to go into his house. But God has showed me that I must not call any man common or unclean.

But I said, By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.

But the voice answered me a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed, you must not call common.

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples, nor revilers of your goddess.

He also attempted to profane the temple; and we took him, and wished to judge him according to our law.

knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers,