Hebrews 5

¹ Every high priest is taken from among human beings and is appointed to act on their behalf inrelationships with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins;

² he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he too is subject tothe limitations of weakness.

³ That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as wel as for the people.

⁴ No one takes this honour on himself; it needs a cal from God, as in Aaron's case.

⁵ And so it was not Christ who gave himself the glory of becoming high priest, but the one who said tohim: You are my Son, today I have fathered you,

⁶ and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek.

⁷ During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the onewho had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence,

⁸ he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings;

⁹ when he had been perfected, he became for al who obey him the source of eternal salvation

¹⁰ and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹ On this subject we have many things to say, and they are difficult to explain because you have grownso slow at understanding.

¹² Indeed, when you should by this time have become masters, you need someone to teach you al overagain the elements of the principles of God's sayings; you have gone back to needing milk, and not solid food.

¹³ Truly, no one who is stil living on milk can digest the doctrine of saving justice, being stil a baby.

¹⁴ Solid food is for adults with minds trained by practice to distinguish between good and bad.