Helps in 1 Corinthians 12:28. Now God indeed placed them in the congregation. First He placed apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.
The word Helps in this verse simply slips in unobtrusively, hiding in the verse. It is very easy to gloss over Helps, not understanding what Paul is saying. The word Helps is the literal translation of the Greek word Antilepsis, referring to those responsible for the care of the poor and the sick. Helps is not a general term for making one or more people in a congregation to just do whatever someone in leadership wants done. The Helps ministry is not to be misused, so take this definition seriously and apply Helps as Paul meant in 1 Corinthians 12.
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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