Hebrews 5

¹For every high priest taken from among the people is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

²He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.

³That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

⁴No one takes this honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just as Aaron was.[#5:4 receives it when he is called by God, just as Aaron was ¦ he who is called by God receives it, just as Aaron did HF TR]

⁵In the same way, Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him,

“Yoʋ are my Son;

today I have begotten yoʋ.”

⁶And in another passage he says,

“Yoʋ are a priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.”

⁷In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

⁸Even though he was the Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered.

⁹And having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him

¹⁰and was designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹On this topic we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

¹²For though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.

¹³Anyone who lives on milk is unacquainted with the teaching about righteousness, for he is an infant.

¹⁴But solid food is for the mature, whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish between good and evil.