1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have
compassion
on the ignorant, and on them that are
out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for
sins.
4 And no man taketh this
honour
unto himself, but he that is
called
of God, as
was Aaron.
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my
Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another
place, Thou
art a
priest
for ever
after the order of
Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers
and supplications with
strong crying
and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard
in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet
learned
he
obedience
by the things which he
suffered;
9 And being made
perfect, he became the
author
of eternal
salvation
unto all them that obey him;
10 Called
of God an
high priest
after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and
hard
to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of
hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which
be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need ofmilk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth
milk
is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
