Philippians 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδὲν κατὰ ἐριθείαν ἢ κενοδοξίαν· ἀλλὰ τῇ ταπεινοφροσύνῃ ἀλλήλους ἡγούμενοι ὑπερέχοντας ἑαυτῶν.

Transliteration

Nothing kata eritheian or kenodoxian; but in the tapeinophrosynē one another hēgoumenoi hyperechontas of yourselves.

Grammar Details

• *kata*: preposition + accusative - according to/by way of
• *eritheian*: accusative, feminine, singular - selfish ambition/strife/contention
• *kenodoxian*: accusative, feminine, singular - vainglory/empty pride/conceit
• *tapeinophrosynē*: dative, feminine, singular - humility/lowliness of mind
• *hēgoumenoi*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural - considering/esteeming
• *hyperechontas*: present participle, accusative, masculine, plural - excelling/surpassing/superior to

Word Meanings

• *eritheian*: selfish ambition/strife/rivalry/contention
• *kenodoxian*: vainglory/empty pride/conceit/vanity
• *tapeinophrosynē*: humility/lowliness of mind/modesty
• *hēgoumenoi*: considering/esteeming/regarding/counting
• *hyperechontas*: excelling/surpassing/better than/superior to

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
• Eph 4:2 : 2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
• Eph 5:21 : 21 Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,
• Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
• Col 3:8 : 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
• Prov 13:10 : 10 The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
• Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us? 6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
• 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
• Phil 1:15-17 : 15 Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart: 16 These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news: 17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
• Phil 2:14 : 14 Do all things without protests and arguments;
• Luke 14:7-9 : 7 And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them, 8 When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming, 9 And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat. 10 But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there. 11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.
• 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
• Gal 5:20-21 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
• Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.