12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with their hands 'defiled,' by which they meant unwashed.

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

"No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'."

Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

'No, Lord, I cannot,' I answered, 'for nothing 'defiled' or 'unclean' has ever passed my lips.'

Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. "What God has pronounced 'clean'," it said, "you must not call 'defiled'."

For you have brought these men here, though they are neither robbers of Temples nor blasphemers of our Goddess.

He even attempted to desecrate the Temple itself, but we caught him;

by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers,