Hebrews 5
1 For every high priest chosen from among people is appointed on their behalf in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2 He can be patient with the ignorant and those who go astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness.
3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins, just as he does for the people, so also for himself.
4 No one takes this honor for himself; only someone called by God does, just as Aaron was.
5 In the same way, Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest; it was the one who said to him, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.”
6 As he also says elsewhere, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
7 During the days of his life in the flesh, he offered prayers and pleas, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
9 And once he had been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
10 He was declared by God to be high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
11 We have much to say about this, and it is difficult to explain, because you have become slow to hear.
12 For by now you ought to be teachers, yet you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of God's words. You have become people who need milk, not solid food.
13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, since that person is a child.
14 But solid food is for adults, whose faculties have been trained through practice to distinguish both good and evil.
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