Hebrews 5

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 For every high priest, having been taken from among men, is appointed on behalf of men toward the things which pertain to God, so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices on behalf of 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 commiserate with those who are ignorant and who wander astray, because he himself is also encompassed by infirmity.
3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.	3 And because of this, he also must make such offerings for sins even for himself, in the same manner 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 Neither does anyone take up this honor himself, but rather he who is 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 Thus, even Christ did not glorify himself, so as to become High Priest, but instead, it was God who said to him: “You are my Son. Today 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 And similarly, 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 It is Christ who, in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offered prayers and supplications to the One who was able to save him from death, and who 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 And although, certainly, he is the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things that he suffered.
9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation.	9 And having reached his consummation, he was made, for all who are obedient to him, the cause of eternal salvation,
10 Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech.	10 having been called by God to be the 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 Our message about him is great, and difficult to explain when speaking, because you have been made feeble when listening.
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 For even though it is the time when you ought to be teachers, you are still lacking, so that you must be taught the things that are the basic elements of the Word of God, and so you have been made like those who are in need of milk, and not of 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 For anyone who is still feeding on milk is still unskillful in the Word of Justice; for he is like an infant.
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 those who are mature, for those who, by practice, have sharpened their mind, so as to discern good from evil.