12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,

And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed)

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"

"On no account, Lord," he replied; "for I have never yet eaten anything unholy and impure."

Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."

He said to them, "You know better than most that a Jew is strictly forbidden to associate with a Gentile or visit him; but God has taught me to call no one unholy or unclean.

"'On no account, Lord,' I replied, 'for nothing unholy or impure has ever gone into my mouth.'

"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

He even attempted to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,