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The Places of 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians names 7 places; Ephesus, Jerusalem and Achaia most often. 7 of them can be put on a map, 7 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of From Rome to Persia with the places named in 1 Corinthians. Every place is listed in the table below.10°E15°E20°E25°E30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E55°E25°N30°N35°N40°N45°NEphesusJerusalemCorinthEphesusJerusalemAchaiaCorinthGalatiaMacedoniaN01000 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Rome to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in 1 Corinthians

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Ephesus15:32, 16:8OpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem16:1, 16:3OpenBible.infoHigh
Achaia16:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Asia16:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Corinth1:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Galatia16:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Macedonia16:5OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.