Philippians Chapter 2 verse 3 Holy Bible
`doing' nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
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Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
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[let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
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Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory. Not "strife," but "faction," as R.V. The word is the same as that rendered "contention" in Philippians 1:10, where see note. Party spirit is one of the greatest dangers in running the Christian race. Love is the characteristic Christian grace; party spirit and vain-glory too often lead professing Christians to break the law of love. But in lowiness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. In your lowliness; the article seems to have a possessive sense, the lowliness characteristic of Christians, which you as Christians possess. Ταπεινοφροσύνη an exclusively New Testament word: the grace was new, and the word was new. The adjective ταπεινός in classical Greek is used as a term of reproach - abject, mean. The life of Christ ("I am meek and lowly in heart") and the teaching of Christ ("Blessed are the poor in spirit") have raised lowliness to a new position, as one of the chief features in the true Christian character. Here St. Paul bids us, as a discipline of humility, to look at our own faults and at the good points in the character of others (comp. Romans 12:10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) This verse expresses the negative result of this unity of soul--that nothing will be done in "strife," that is, factiousness (the word used in Philippians 1:17), or "vainglory"--nothing, that is, with the desire either of personal influence or of personal glory. "For," he adds, "each will esteem other better than himself," or, rather, will hold that his neighbour is worthy of higher consideration and a higher place of dignity than himself (comp. the use of the word in Romans 13:1; 1Peter 2:13, of temporal dignity); for the idea is of the ascription to others, not of moral superiority, but of higher place and honour. Self-assertion will be entirely overborne. So he teaches us elsewhere that "charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own" (1Corinthians 13:4-5).
