12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

They had noticed that some of his disciples were eating with "common," that is to say, unwashed hands.

So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?"

"Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"'Not so, my Lord' said I, 'for nothing common or unclean has ever gone into my mouth.'

"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, '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 profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

but he must remember that the Law is not enacted for a good man, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreligious and sinful, for the godless and profane, for parricides and murderers,