12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

and he said to them, "You know that it is against the Law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one; but God has taught me not to call anyone vulgar or unclean.

But I said, 'Never, sir! For nothing that was not ceremonially cleansed has ever passed my lips.'

Then the voice from heaven answered again, 'Do not call what God has cleansed unclean!'

For you have brought these men here, though they have not been guilty of disloyalty nor uttered any blasphemy against our goddess.

and actually tried to desecrate the Temple, but we caught him.

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,