20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

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

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, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, cubits long and cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."

Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.

Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

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

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"

But Peter said, "By no means, 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 made clean, do not call common."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

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

But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, do not call common.'

For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.

He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.

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