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Originally Posted by Evangelical

Paul included all believers in the city but doubt he referred to the sects because he was against that.

You doubt it? He states plainly that the letter is written to those who are referring to themselves as "of Peter" or "of Apollos" or "of Christ" etc. This is the plain, black and white word. Yet at the same time he addresses the letter to "the church in Corinth".

3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

and the same book

1:1Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: