Бедный

Christians, everything that we have or can have, we receive from Him [the Lord]. But His holy word says: he who does good to the poor lends to the Lord (Proverbs 19:17). Thus, He encourages us to love and mercy, so that the poor, with whom He, as a loving Father, has compassion for His children, receive consolation in their sorrows, and those who have mercy on them and give them a helping hand do not lose their reward. God, as the Almighty, can open His treasures and with His invisible hand give what is necessary to the poor and thus fulfill their desires. But He presents them to our eyes, and points to them, and commands us to have mercy on them, and He Himself promises to reward us for them, so that the poor, whom He, as the Merciful, pities, are not left without satisfaction and we receive a hundredfold reward from Him. The poor who accept alms should be grateful to God, who shows them His mercy through man, and to the man who gives and helps him in his needs, and to love, honor and remember him as his benefactor in his prayers. So, the duty of the rich is to give, the duty of the poor is to gratefully receive and earnestly pray for the giver. However, even if those who receive alms do not pray for the giver, alms given from a good heart pray more than all other people, and constantly intercede with God, and silently ask for mercy from Him to the giver.