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We the strong (hēmeis hoi dunatoi). Paul identifies himself with this wing in the controversy. He means the morally strong as in 2Co 12:10; 2Co 13:9, not the mighty as in 1Co 1:26.
The infirmities (ta asthenēmata). “The weaknesses” (cf. asthenōn in Rom 14:1, Rom 14:2), the scruples “of the not strong” (tōn adunatōn). See note on Act 14:8 where it is used of the man weak in his feet (impotent).
To bear (bastazein). As in Gal 6:2, common in the figurative sense.
Not to please ourselves (mē heautois areskein). Precisely Paul’s picture of his own conduct in 1Co 10:33.