20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

For the men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, cursed speakers, disobedient to father and mother, unthankful, unholy,

Thy priests break my law, and defile my Sanctuary. They put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither discern between the clean and unclean: they turn their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am unhallowed among them.

So he measured all the four sides where there went a wall round about five hundred measuring rods long, and as broad also which separated the holy from the unholy.

Now also are there many people gathered together against thee, saying that Zion is cursed: "We shall see our lust upon her."

Her prophets are light persons and unfaithful men: her priests unhallow the Sanctuary, and do wrong under the pretence of the law.

Or have ye not read in the law, how that the priests in the temple break the Sabbath day, and yet are blameless?

And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they complained.

Then asked him the Pharisees and scribes, "Why walk not thy disciples according to the traditions of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"

But Peter said, "God forbid Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, "What God hath cleansed that make thou not common."

And he said unto them, "Ye do know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to company or come unto an alien: But God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean:

And I said, 'God forbid Lord, for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.'

But the voice answered me again from heaven, 'Count not thou those things common, which God hath cleansed.'

For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet despisers of your goddess.

and also hath enforced to pollute the temple: Whom we took, and would have judged according to our law,

understanding this, how that the law is not given unto a righteous man, but unto the unrighteous and disobedient, to the ungodly and to sinners, to unholy and unclean, to murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, to manslayers

But and if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it.

They have set fire upon thy holy places, and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name, even to the ground.

Keep my Sabbath therefore, that it be a holy thing unto you. He that defileth it, shall be slain therefore. For whosoever worketh therein, the same soul shall be rooted out from among his people.