The practical need for spiritual purity and power to overcome “the world, the flesh, and the devil” is equally evident then and now. As a wealthy commercial center and port city on the southern tip of Greece, Corinth was known for its great temple of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love), with its 1,000 ritual priestess-prostitutes. The immoral conditions of Corinth are vividly seen in the fact that the Greek term Korinthiazomai (literally, “to act the Corinthian”) came to mean “to practice fornication.”