'Unholy' in the Bible
"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, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.
Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.