12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Holiness

for men will be selfish, covetous, arrogant, proud, blasphemers, undutiful to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

what profane sort of work the priests do in the temple on the sabbath-days, and yet are blameless?

and when they saw some of his disciples eating with impure (that is, unwashed) hands, they found fault:

Then the pharisees and the scribes ask Him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but eat without washing their hands?

But Peter said, By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing polluted or unclean.

And the voice said to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, do not thou account polluted.

And he said unto them, Ye know how unlawful it is for a man that is a Jew, to associate with or go to the house of one of another nation: but God hath shewn me, that I should not call any man polluted or unclean.

But I said, By no means, Lord: for nothing polluted or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

And the voice answered me a second time from heaven, What God hath cleansed do not thou call polluted.

For ye have brought these men hither, who are neither robbers of temples, nor blasphemers of your goddess.

and attempting to profane the temple, we apprehended him, and would have judged him according to our law.

knowing this, that a law does not lie against a righteous person, but against the lawless and unruly, the impious and wicked, the unholy and profane,