12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

Or, did you never read in the law that the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and yet are not guilty?

They had noticed that some of His disciples were in the habit of eating their meals without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to make them clean.

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

But Peter said, "Never by any means, sir, for I have never eaten anything common, or not ceremonially cleansed."

A second time the voice came to him, "The things that God has cleansed you must not call unclean."

and he said to him, "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 any man vulgar or ceremonially unclean;

But I answered, 'Never by any means, sir, for nothing common or not ceremonially cleansed has ever passed my lips.'

Then the voice from heaven answered again, 'The things that God has cleansed you must not call unclean.'

For you have brought these men here, although they are not guilty of sacrilege or of abusive speech against our goddess.

once he tried to desecrate the temple, but we arrested him,

that is, if he understands that law is not enacted for upright people but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and sinful, the ignorant and profane, people who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,