Hebrews 5

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:	1 Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.	2 He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness
3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.	3 and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.
4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.	4 No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
5 So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.	5 In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you";
6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.	6 just as he says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.	7 In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered 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.
8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered:	8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;
9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation.	9 and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
10 Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech.	10 declared by God high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
11 Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.	11 About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in hearing.
12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.	12 Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, (and) not solid food.
13 For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.	13 Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.
14 But strong meat is for the perfect; for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.	14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.