But Daniel made up his mind ¹  that he would not defile ²  himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. ³  He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.

His forces ¹  will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, ²  stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up ³  the abomination that causes desolation.

You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table ¹  of the Lord as if it is of no importance!

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence. ¹  (Now it was very early morning.) ²  They ³  did not go into the governor’s residence ⁴  so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

The evildoer must continue to do evil, ¹  and the one who is morally filthy ²  must continue to be filthy. The ³  one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, ¹  why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

He must not profane his children among his people, ¹  for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

Everyone rejects God; ¹  they are all morally corrupt. ²  None of them does what is right, ³  not even one!

They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground. ¹ 

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed ¹  from their filthiness. ² 

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this – animals trampling on my courtyards? ¹ 

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected ¹  Israel to humiliating abuse.”

Moreover, ¹  the Lord says, ²  “Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!

They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own ¹  and defiled it.

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Then ¹  Jesus rebuked ²  the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.

And the demonic spirits ¹  begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go ¹  with him.