Hebrews 5
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- 1Every high priest is chosen from among men and appointed to act on their behalf in matters related to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
- 2He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and those who have gone astray, because he himself is surrounded by weakness.
- 3Because of this, he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, not just for the sins of the people.
- 4No one takes this honor for himself — he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
- 5In the same way, Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest. Instead, God said to him, 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you.'
- 6And in another passage God says, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec."
- 7During his time on earth, he offered up prayers and pleas with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because he feared.
- 8Even though he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
- 9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation for all who obey him;
- 10Called by God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
- 11About him we have many things to say, and they are hard to explain, because you are slow to hear.
- 12For by this time you ought to be teachers, yet you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the words of God; and you have become such as need milk, and not solid food.
- 13Anyone who still uses milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for they are still an infant.
- 14Solid food is for the mature — for those who have trained themselves through practice to tell the difference between good and evil.