20 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous (lovers of money), arrogant, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful (ungrateful), 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 profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

He measured all four sides. There was a wall all around it. The wall was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long and eight hundred and seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was unholy.

Many nations are assembled against you! They say: 'Let her be defiled, and let us gloat over it.'

Her prophets are insolent and treacherous persons. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary! They have done violence to the law.

Have you read the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked: Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders. Instead they eat their bread with defiled hands?

But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.

The voice spoke to him again the second time: You stop calling defiled that which God has cleansed.

He said to them: You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to keep company, or approach someone of another nation. But God revealed to me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.

I said, 'No Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.'

The voice answered me again from heaven, 'Do not call defiled what God has cleansed!'

You brought these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

He even tried to desecrate the temple. So we captured him according to our law.

Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it out of cut stones. This is because when you use a chisel on stones, you make them unfit for my use.

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

You are to observe the Sabbath. It is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it will absolutely be put to death. Whoever does any work on it will be removed from his people.