# Corinth

Achaia · today Corinth

A port city with a bad reputation and a difficult church, to which Paul writes the most practical letters in the New Testament.

## Ancient names

- Κόρινθος (Korinthos): Greek
- Corinthus: Latin

Source: Pleiades, CC BY 3.0 (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570182).

Photo: https://scriptoria.digital/_fotos/ia60e09.jpg (Davide Mauro, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tempio_di_Apollo_e_Acrocorinto.jpg).

## Passages

- **Acts 18:1-17** (event) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/1
- **Acts 18:1** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/1
- **Acts 18:8** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/8
- **Acts 18:11-12** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/11
- **Acts 18:18** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/18
- **Acts 19:1** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/19/1
- **1 Corinthians 1:2** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/1/2
- **2 Corinthians 1:1** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-corinthians/1/1
- **2 Corinthians 1:23** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-corinthians/1/23
- **2 Corinthians 10:14** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-corinthians/10/14
- **2 Timothy 4:20** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-timothy/4/20

## Coordinates

37.9058, 22.8787

## Straight-line distances

- **Cenchreae**: about 7 mi (11 km) in a straight line, a day on foot
- **Athens**: about 46 mi (75 km) in a straight line, 4 days on foot
- **Ephesus**: about 240 mi (390 km) in a straight line, 17 days on foot
- **Miletus**: about 240 mi (390 km) in a straight line, 17 days on foot
- **Rome**: about 620 mi (990 km) in a straight line
- **Jerusalem**: about 820 mi (1,300 km) in a straight line

## In the reference maps

- **Paul's journeys**: 2nd journey (Acts 18:1-17). https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/maps/viagens-de-paulo

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/corinth
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- Text license: Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).