Be careful what you say from how you read the holy scriptures. There's that unexplainable something that grips us when we read of the man God uses in the holy scriptures The same facts read in the holy scriptures is repeated when we read of the man God uses in the writing of the apostles. What we read of God's use of Paul, Peter, James, John, Timothy, Titus, Barnabas or even our Lord Jesus is also what we had read of Samuel, Saul and David. If we rush our reading of the holy scriptures not knowing this, that hasty slant will ultimately hinder the Man of God from maturing today - the hinderance is not in the holy scriptures but in the hardness of heart. There is a sane and humble way to read the David story (and those stories famously [ab]used to promote fleshly works and mindsets amongst ministers) that today it exercises the Man of God unto godliness, for in David the story of the solid example of the believer is told. Failing to read properly, the bible can be used to promote bondage and the enslaving of saints by ministers - the trouble is that saints who are exposed to this also end up enslaving younger saints when they become elders. Amazingly people subject others to the very things that had traumatised them when they were younger and of a purer conscience). It is the Pharisee way of reading the holy scriptures that causes men to read the David story in an abusive way that leads down a slippery slope which only serves to reveal the hardened heart of the student of scripture. In all these instances, the trouble is not with the holy scriptures. It is the hasty tendency of the fragmentary reading of the text in a way that ignores the fact that these stories are written to furnish the Man of God so that he or she is not deficient in rendering ministry to the saints that leads to the problem. The true meaning and intent of the story told in David is clearly seen in Apollos, Paul, Peter, James, John, Timothy, Titus, Barnabas and most especially our Lord Jesus. Read the scriptures together and adorn the doctrine of our Lord in your conduct and don't use scripture as a cloak for fleshly works. Be careful how you read the holy scriptures and pay attention to your emphasis from it. Do not use David in ways that the writers of the scriptures never intended for him to be used. Watch the apostles. Observe what they used David to teach. Stay with that narrative. Do not use the scripture in ways that no apostle ever used those stories. With humility, pick the bible again with awe in your heart. Read. Ingest the word. Live.