1 Samuel 21:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

David answered the priest, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”

Cross References

Exodus 19:14

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Exodus 25:30

And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

Leviticus 24:9

They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.”

Leviticus 8:26

From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.