20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness
Most Relevant Verses
With Your hand, Lord, save me from men,
from men of the world
whose portion is in this life:
You fill their bellies with what You have in store;
their sons are satisfied,
and they leave their surplus to their children.
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Her priests do violence to My instruction and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
He measured the temple complex on all four sides. It had a wall all around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Many nations have now assembled against you;
they say, “Let her be defiled,
and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
Her prophets are reckless—
treacherous men.
Her priests profane the sanctuary;
they do violence to instruction.
Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?
They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.
Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”
Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”
Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.
“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’
For you have brought these men here who are not temple robbers or blasphemers of our goddess.
He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we apprehended him [and wanted to judge him according to our law.
We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.
They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.
Observe the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Whoever profanes it must be put to death. If anyone does work on it, that person must be cut off from his people.