19 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.

And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

For you have taken these men, who are not doing damage to the holy place or talking against our goddess.

Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.