'Older' in the Bible
"Now his older son was in the field, and when he came [and] approached the house, he heard music and dancing.
Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.
not by works but by the one who calls--it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"
Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to [him] as a father, younger men as brothers,
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance.
Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,