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."
The "younger" (neoteros) refers to the "newer, the youthful" and is used in a comparative degree (Luke 15:12-13; Luke 22:26; 1 Timothy 5:1). All younger people of either sex are included.