Corinth is a port city in Greece, a commercial city where commerce and trade flourished.
According to records, there were at least 12 temples here, and the temples of Apollo and Aphrodite were particularly famous. Temple prostitution, associated with the worship of the goddess, was also active, and the sin of immorality was rampant throughout the city.
Paul sent five letters to this place, but only two of them have been preserved, which are 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. In those letters, he rebukes such sexual depravity.
1 Cor 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
Paul stayed here for about a year and a half.
Acts 18:1After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.Acts 18:2There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,Acts 18:3and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.Acts 18:4Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.Acts 18:5When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.Acts 18:6But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”Acts 18:7Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.Acts 18:8Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.Acts 18:9One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.Acts 18:10For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.”Acts 18:11So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.