ungodliness

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Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reading of the 'Book of Sports' had been interdicted, and from their pulpits they lectured their congregations on the ungodliness of the Sabbath amusements.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

So Paul says in Ephesians 4, 30, that the Holy Spirit in the righteous is grieved by the ungodliness and malice of the wicked.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas

In the future when He appears as their Redeemer and claims the purchased possession, He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

From The Work Of Christ Past, Present and Future by Gaebelein, Arno Clemens

As godliness increases the sense of ungodliness becomes more acute, and so feelings never accurately gauge real assimilation to God.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)