Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
We the strong (hmeiv oi dunatoi). Paul identifies himself with this wing in the controversy. He means the morally strong as in 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 13:9, not the mighty as in 1 Corinthians 1:26.
The infirmities (ta asqenhmata). "The weaknesses" (cf. asqenwn in Romans 14:1-2), the scruples "of the not strong" (twn adunatwn). See Acts 14:8 where it is used of the man weak in his feet (impotent).
To bear (bastazein). As in Galatians 6:2, common in the figurative sense.
Not to please ourselves (mh eautoiv areskein). Precisely Paul's picture of his own conduct in 1 Corinthians 10:33.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 14:8
1 Corinthians 9:22
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