‏ Hebrews 5

The Perfect High Priest

1 For every high priest ataken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in bthings pertaining to God, in order to coffer both gifts and sacrifices dfor sins; 2
Lit being able to
fhe can deal gently with the gignorant and hmisguided, since he himself also is
I.e., weak by nature
jclothed in weakness;
3and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices kfor sins for himself, las well as for the people. 4And mno one takes the honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just nas Aaron also was.

5 So too Christ odid not glorify Himself in becoming a phigh priest, but it was He who qsaid to Him,
rYou are My Son,
Today I have fathered You”;

6 just as He also says in another passage,
sYou are a priest forever
According to tthe order of Melchizedek.”

7 In the days of
Lit His flesh
His humanity,
Lit who having offered up
wHe offered up both prayers and pleas with xloud crying and tears to the One yable to save Him
Or out of
from death, and He
Lit having been heard
was heard because of His abdevout behavior.
8Although He was aca Son, He learned adobedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been aeperfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him, 10being designated by God as afHigh Priest according to agthe order of Melchizedek.

11 Concerning
Lit whom; or which
him we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become
Lit sluggish in hearing
poor listeners.
12For though
Lit because of the time
by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you akthe
Lit elements of the beginning
amelementary principles of the anactual words of God, and you have come to need aomilk and not solid food.
13For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an apinfant. 14But solid food is for aqthe mature, who because of practice have their senses artrained to asdistinguish between good and evil.
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