1Sa 25:8-11, Psa 112:5, 9, Pro 21:13, Isa 32:6-8, Mic 3:2-3, Jam 2:13, 5:4-6 | ESV | STEP | Ask your young men , and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes , for we come on a feast day . Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David .

1 Samuel 25:8-11

8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come ^aon a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”

9 When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited. 10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, ^b“Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? ^cThere are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters. 11 Shall I take ^dmy bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to ^emen who come from I do not know where?”

Psalms 112:5

5 It is well with the man who ^fdeals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalms 112:9

9 He has ^gdistributed freely; he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his ^hhorn is exalted in honor.

Proverbs 21:13

13 ⁱWhoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.

Isaiah 32:6-8

6 For ^jthe fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
^kto leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
7 As for the scoundrel— ^lhis devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.
8 But he who is noble plans noble things,
and on noble things he stands.

Micah 3:2-3

2 you ^mwho hate the good and love the evil,
ⁿwho tear the skin from off my people ^{▼▼Hebrew from off them}
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 ^pwho eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.

James 2:13

13 For ^qjudgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 5:4-6

4 Behold, ^rthe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and ^sthe cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of ^tthe Lord of hosts. 5 ^uYou have lived on the earth in luxury and ^vin self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in ^wa day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and ^xmurdered ^ythe righteous person. He does not resist you.