Hebrews 5
“For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on
behalf of people in things pertaining to GOD, in order to offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins;
2 he can deal gently with
the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is clothed in
weakness;
3 and because of it he is
obligated to offer sacrifices for sins for himself, as
well as for the people.
4 And no one takes the
honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by GOD,
just as Aaron also was.
5 So too CHRIST DID NOT GLORIFY HIMSELF
IN BECOMING A HIGH PRIEST, but it was HE WHO said
to HIM,
‘YOU are MY
SON,
Today I have fathered YOU’;
6 just as
He also says in another passage,
‘YOU are A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO
THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.’
7 In the
days of HIS humanity, HE OFFERED UP BOTH PRAYERS AND PLEAS WITH LOUD CRYING AND TEARS TO THE
ONE ABLE TO SAVE HIM FROM DEATH AND HE WAS HEARD BECAUSE OF HIS DEVOUT BEHAVIOR.
8 Although HE
was A SON
HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED
9 And
having been PERFECTED,
HE became THE SOURCE OF
ETERNAL SALVATION FOR ALL THOSE WHO OBEY HIM,
10 being DESIGNATED BY GOD AS HIGH PRIEST
ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
11 Concerning HIM
we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, since you
have become poor listeners.
12 For
though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for
someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual
words of GOD,
and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For
everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
for he is an infant.
14 But
solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their
senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.”
