Proverbs 13:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.
  • Ps 102:28 : 28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their descendants shall be established before you.
  • Ps 112:2 : 2 His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 Yes, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.
  • Ps 25:12-13 : 12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses. 13 His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.
  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 13:21
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    21Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 20:7
    76%

    7The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

  • Ps 112:2-3
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    75%

    2His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

    3Wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness shall endure forever.

  • Prov 20:21
    75%

    21An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.

  • Ps 37:21-22
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    75%

    21The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous show mercy and give.

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the income of the wicked is trouble.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    75%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 20:10
    74%

    10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • Prov 11:31
    74%

    31Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed on earth, much more the wicked and the sinner.

  • Ps 37:16
    74%

    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

  • Prov 13:6-7
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    74%

    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Job 27:13
    74%

    13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.

  • Prov 10:16
    74%

    16The labor of the righteous tends to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.

  • Prov 10:2
    74%

    2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Prov 17:6
    73%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Prov 11:18
    73%

    18The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 11:4
    73%

    4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Job 21:19
    73%

    19God lays up iniquity for his children; He rewards him, and he shall know it.

  • Eccl 7:11
    73%

    11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Job 20:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.

    29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage assigned to him by God.

  • Ps 37:29
    72%

    29The righteous shall inherit the land and live in it forever.

  • Prov 17:13
    72%

    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

  • Prov 28:20
    72%

    20A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.

  • Luke 12:21
    72%

    21So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Prov 11:28
    72%

    28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Job 22:18
    71%

    18Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Ezek 18:14
    71%

    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Ps 37:26-27
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    71%

    26He is ever merciful, and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

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  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Ps 112:5
    71%

    5A good man shows favor and lends; he will guide his affairs with discretion.

  • Ps 25:13
    71%

    13His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

  • Prov 11:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

    24There is one who scatters, and yet increases; and there is one who withholds more than is right, and it leads to poverty.

  • Prov 14:32
    71%

    32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Prov 28:8
    71%

    8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Prov 10:22
    71%

    22The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

  • Prov 21:26
    71%

    26He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 14:19
    71%

    19The evil will bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Prov 23:24
    71%

    24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

  • Isa 3:10
    71%

    10Say to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

  • Prov 28:6
    71%

    6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.