doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Esteem others better than themselves. Saint Thomas (22. q. 162. a. 3.) puts the question, how an innocent man can with truth think himself worse than the most wicked of men? He answers, that a man who has received very extraordinary gifts from God, cannot think these gifts less than what any other has received; but he may reflect that he has nothing, and is nothing of himself. And a man truly humble considers only his own sins and failings, and is persuaded that any other person would have made better use of the same graces; which agrees with what follows, (verse 4) not considering the things that are his own. Witham.