The city of Corinth is a commercial city. The Corinth city was located in southern Greece, about 50 miles from Athens and about two miles south of the narrow isthmus that forms a land bridge between the main landmasses of Greece and the Peloponnesus. Corinth was the capital city of Achaia. Corinth was situated between the Aegean and Adriatic seas. This city had three good harbours: Lechaeum, Cenchrea on the Corinth Gulf, and Schoenus on the Saronic Gulf. Paul visited Corinth three times and wrote four letters to the Corinthians. Other letters are mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:9, 2 Corinthians 2:4, and 2 Corinthians 7:8; the agora was the city’s marketplace, and the bema was the judgement seat. Corinth boasted extensive commerce, like all the large towns on the Mediterranean Sea, and became celebrated for its wealth, magnificence, and learning. This city is known by several names, like "Sin City" and "Carnal Corinth." Corinth was a Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman city. About 146 B.C. before Jesus was born, the city of Corinth was destroyed by the Roman consul Lucius Mumius. About 46 B.C., the city was rebuilt by Julius Caesar and became the seat of government for a province of Rome. Corinth has a Jewish synagogue (Acts 18:4), where Paul preached the gospel and visited Aquila and Priscilla.
In Corinth, we can find the cults of the gods of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. This city is also known as the "city of immorality." It had been filled with sailors who used their money gladly here. There was a Temple named the Temple of Aphrodite where the goddess of love was situated. In that temple, there were a thousand priestesses who were sacred prostitutes. There were the temple of Apollo and the temple of Poseidon and their shrines. All of them had their own purpose. There were a lot of gods and goddesses, like the god of healing and the rulers of the sea. The people of Corinth used to speak Latin.
Paul stayed in Corinth for three years. He worked there as a tentmaker. There were several issues in the church of Corinth such as division, fornication (1 Cor 5), going to law before unbelievers (1 Cor 6), marriage (1 Cor 7), eating to meats (1 Cor 8–9), headship and covering the heads of women (1 Cor 11), the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor 11), spiritual gifts (1 Cor 12–14), and the resurrection from the grave (1 Cor 15). Paul wrote his letters to the Corinthians to solve such issues.
