20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless?

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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

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

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.'

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, and we arrested him.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.