Proverbs 13:22 - Revised Standard Version CI

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² A good man leaves an inheritance [of moral stability and goodness] to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner [finds its way eventually] into the hands of the righteous, for whom it was laid up.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Common English Bible

²² Good people leave their grandchildren an inheritance, but the wealth of sinners is stored up for the righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.

Proverbs 13:22 Cross References

Ezra 9:12

Therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.’

Psalm 102:28

The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee.

Psalm 112:2

His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalm 128:6

May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.