Corinth was an important and wealthy city. Having ports on two seas, it was a great trading center. Christianity was first introduced there by Paul on his second missionary journey. His continued labors were successful in building up a vigorous church. But on his leaving for other fields of labor, serious evils broke out among the members ; some countenanced immorality, idol feasts, lawsuits in heathen courts, and immodesty among women. As tidings of these evils were brought to Paul at Ephesus, he addressed this letter to the Corinthian church “with many tears,” 2 Oer. 2:4. The letter was written about 57 A.D. Several features of special interest characterize this Epistle —notably the gospel as the wisdom of God, the supremacy of love. and the doctrine of the resurrection.