Proverbs 13:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Cross References

Ezra 9:12

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

Psalm 102:28

The children of your servants shall live secure; their offspring shall be established in your presence.

Psalm 112:2

Their 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 their children begging bread.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their parents.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one 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 chasing after wind.