20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall all around, five hundred rods long, and five hundred wide, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the common place.

Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous persons: her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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

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

And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, What God has cleansed, that call not common.

And he said unto them, You know that it is an unlawful 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, that call not you common.

For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples, nor yet 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 and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

And if you will make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.

They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.

You shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.