Certain types of leaders and rulers tolerate and incentivise the wrong behaviours.

Paul was teaching in relative peace in Corinth, but when a new governor took office, trouble brewed when some unsavoury people took advantage of this new ruler. Only a few verses were written, but there were probably a lot more that could be written about this.

Ruling and governing people are complex matters. Ungodly rulers do not make things any easier, but rulers or rulers-wannabe who claim to be Christians - but do not have the Spirit of Jesus in them - make things much more complicated.

And somehow, God will accomplish what he sets out to do anyway. Glory to God.

"So Paul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching the people the word of God.

When Gallio was made the Roman governor of Achaia, Jews there got together, seized Paul, and took him into court. “This man,” they said, “is trying to persuade people to worship God in a way that is against the law!”

Paul was about to speak when Gallio said to the Jews, “If this were a matter of some evil crime or wrong that has been committed, it would be reasonable for me to be patient with you Jews. But since it is an argument about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must settle it. I will not be the judge of such things!” And he drove them out of the court.

They all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the court. But that did not bother Gallio a bit."

(Acts 18.11-17 GNB)