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."
"Clothed" (egkomkomboomai) is a word with a rich background. It is from a word which signifies a knot or a tie or a band by which two things are fastened. It came to denote the white scarf or apron of slaves, which distinguished them from freemen. This word occurs in no other place in the New Testament.