20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

from men, with thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life and whose belly thou dost fill with thy provision: they satisfy their sons and leave the rest to their family.

For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,

Her priests have violated my law by force and have profaned my holy things; they have made no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they showed the difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

But now many nations are gathered against thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes see our desire carried out upon Zion.

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary; they have falsified the law.

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?

who upon seeing some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they condemned them.

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

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, That which God has cleansed, do not call common.

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an abominable thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

But I said, Not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, do not call common.

For ye have brought here these men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege, nor blasphemers of your goddess.

who also has gone about to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our law.

knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly sinners, for the evil and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

They have set fire to thy sanctuaries; they have defiled the tabernacle of thy name in the earth.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you; those that defile it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.