Verse 22

A good person leaves an inheritance for their grandchildren, but the sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:8 : 8 Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay, 17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, He gives the task of gathering and storing wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 So now, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace or prosperity forever, so that you may be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it to your children as an inheritance forever.
  • Ps 102:28 : 28 But you are the same, and your years will never end.
  • Ps 112:2 : 2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 May you live to see your children’s children—peace be upon Israel.
  • Ps 25:12-13 : 12 Who is the one who fears the LORD? He will instruct them in the way they should choose. 13 His soul will dwell in well-being, and his offspring will inherit the land.
  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I was young, and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread.