Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Gird yourselves... must evidently have been written by Peter in vivid remembrance of that occasion when Jesus himself girded himself with a towel and washed the disciples' feet, even Peter's (John 13:4), and that at a time when not a one of the Twelve consented to do such a thing.  In this clause, the Greek word actually means "an apron worn by slaves, which was tied around them when at work, to keep their dress clean."[24] Macknight also defined it as "a frock put over the rest of the clothes,"[25] giving the meaning to be that "humility should be visible over all the other Christian virtues, in our whole behavior."[26]