Probable chronology of Pauline Letters
| SN | Letters | Date- AD | Place of writing | Ref. found in Acts |
| 1 | Galatians | 48 | Syrian Antioch | 14:28; 15:2 |
| 2 | 1 Thessalonians | 50 | Corinth | 18:5 |
| 3 | 2-Thessalonians | 50 | Corinth | |
| 4 | 1-Corinthians | 55 | Ephesus | 19:20 |
| 5 | 2-Corinthians | 56 | Macedonia | 20:2 |
| 6 | Romans | 57 | Corinth | 20:3 |
Prison Letters:
| SN. | Letters | Date- AD | Place of writing | Ref. found in Acts |
| 7 | Colossians | Early 60s | Rome | |
| 8 | Ephesians | Early 60s | Rome | |
| 9 | Philemon | Early 60s | Rome | |
| 10 | Philippians | 62-63 | Rome | 28:30-31 |
Fourth-Missionary journey:
| SN. | Letters | Date- AD | Place of writing | Ref. found in Acts |
| 11 | 1-Timothy | 63 | Macedonia | |
| 12 | Titus | 63 | Ephesus | |
| 13 | 2-Timothy | 64 | Rome. |
History:
The city of Corinth was on a narrow Isthmus of land that joined the mainland of Greece to the Peloponnese. The Isthmus became an important destination for merchants wishing to avoid the more hazardous southern route between the southern coast of Achaia and Crete. Corinth was the capital city of the region called Achaia. It had two harbours. The harbour on the east coast was 4-miles from the harbour on the west coast. Today a canal joins the two harbours. In Paul’s time, people pulled small boats across from one harbour to the other one. They dragged them on a kind of ship railway. Porters carried goods from large boats to the other side. They put the goods on a different boat. The journey would otherwise have been over 200-miles round a very dangerous part of the sea.