Proverbs 13:22 · World English Bible
Proverbs 13:22 Meaning A Good Man Leaves an Inheritance
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
What does Proverbs 13:22 mean?
Love gives itself forward without loss, for what the healed part of the mind holds it cannot help but extend, and the peace it knows becomes the ground on which every thought that follows can stand. Nothing true is spent in the giving; it multiplies as it is shared.
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Love gives itself forward without loss, for what the healed part of the mind holds it cannot help but extend, and the peace it knows becomes the ground on which every thought that follows can stand. Nothing true is spent in the giving; it multiplies as it is shared.
Even what the ego hoards in fear is not finally its own. The energy locked up in guilt was only ever borrowed from love, and it returns to love the moment the mind is willing to see innocence instead of sin.
Children's children: the thoughts that come after in the mind, the whole line of what love keeps giving forward without ever spending itself
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Live Proverbs 13:22 today
- Say the generous thing you were going to keep to yourself, in a text, out loud, in a review. Sending it costs you nothing you actually had.
- Give someone your full attention for five minutes today with your phone face down. That is the kind of thing a person carries for years and passes on without knowing.
- When you are tempted to hold back credit, information or help because you might need the advantage, hand it over anyway. Nothing worth having gets smaller when shared.
What good thing am I storing up that would grow if I let it go?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The sage gives and is not emptied, because what is given from an open source keeps flowing. Holding tight is what makes a thing run out.
Bhagavad Gita
Act and give without clutching the result, and nothing you offer is ever truly lost. What is real cannot be spent; only the grasping wears you down.
Buddhism · Metta
Wish someone well and the warmth does not leave you to reach them. It grows in you on the way out, and it keeps going long past the moment you offered it.
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