Differences between sinful cities

[Lamb]

I was thinking about in the Old Testament how Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed. They wouldn't repent from their sin.

The New Testament gives some hope because Paul went to Corinth which was really awful and we don't see them being destroyed, so they must have repented some? Let's discuss?

 

[psalms 91]

Well, we know that there was a church in Cornith thus the 2 Corintiians

 

[MoreCoffee]

I was thinking about in the Old Testament how Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed. They wouldn't repent from their sin.

The New Testament gives some hope because Paul went to Corinth which was really awful and we don't see them being destroyed, so they must have repented some? Let's discuss?

I do not recall any specifics being given for Gomorrah in the Genesis story but I think Ezekiel says something about them and Sodom: "As I live -- declares the Lord Yahweh -- your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. The crime of your sister Sodom was pride, gluttony, calm complacency; such were hers and her daughters' crimes. They never helped the poor and needy; they were proud, and engaged in loathsome practices before me, and so I swept them away as you have seen." (Ezekiel 16:48-50 NJB) But it looks like Sodom cops the main blame in that passage.

It seems to me that Corinth was not singled out for its sins in any of Paul's letters but it is implied that they had prostitution in the city and that it was both female and male prostitution. It was a trade/port city so I imagine it had plenty of men arriving by ship and staying only a short time and that seems to be a magnet for sexual immorality all through history.