12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent?

they saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with impure hands?"

But Peter said, "No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is 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 yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

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

But the voice answered 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 blasphemers of our goddess.

He even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers