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Corinth
Κόρινθος
- verses
- 11
- first named
- Acts 18:1
- last named
- 2 Timothy 4:20
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 37.91°N · 22.88°E
Corinth (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Corinth in the text
Corinth was a prominent city in ancient Greece, located on the Isthmus of Corinth, which connects the Peloponnese to the mainland. It was known for its strategic location, controlling trade routes between the Aegean and Adriatic seas. The city was famous for its wealth, luxury, and immorality.
In the New Testament, Corinth plays a significant role as the location of a Christian church founded by the apostle Paul during his second missionary journey (Act.18.1-18). Paul spent 18 months in Corinth, working as a tentmaker and preaching the gospel. Many Corinthians, including Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed and were baptized (Act.18.8).
After leaving Corinth, Paul wrote two epistles to the church, known as 1 and 2 Corinthians. These letters address various issues faced by the Corinthian believers, including divisions, immorality, lawsuits, and questions about spiritual gifts, resurrection, and Christian conduct.
In Romans 16:27, Paul sends greetings to the Corinthians, indicating that he wrote the epistle to the Romans while in Corinth. In 2Ti.4.20, Paul mentions that he left Erastus in Corinth, suggesting that the city continued to have a Christian presence.
Throughout the epistles, Paul refers to the Corinthian believers with affection, calling them "saints" (1Co.1.2; 2Co.1.1) and expressing his love for them (2Co.6.11; 13:13-14). The correspondence between Paul and the Corinthian church provides valuable insights into the challenges and growth of the early Christian community in a significant Gentile city.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Contains
- Church In Corinth — first named at 1 Corinthians 1:21 Corinthians 1:2
- Church In Corinth — first named at 2 Corinthians 1:12 Corinthians 1:1
Stands in the same events as
The pattern
Where Corinth is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (3), Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (2), 2 Corinthians (4) and 2 Timothy (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 5 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 1 Corinthians 1Corinth is the place of the church whose quarrels, gifts, loyalties, and calling Paul addresses.
- 2 Corinthians 1Corinth receives the letter, appears in Paul's intended journey, and is spared his return.
- 2 Corinthians 6Corinth is addressed by speakers whose hearts are open wide, though the Corinthians’ affection is said to be restrained.
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