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Lunedi, 29 aprile 2024 - Santa Caterina da Siena ( Letture di oggi)

Hebrews 5


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NEW JERUSALEMKING JAMES BIBLE
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;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 he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he too is subject tothe limitations of weakness.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 That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as wel as for the people.3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 No one takes this honour on himself; it needs a cal from God, as in Aaron's case.4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
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,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 and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek.6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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,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 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings;8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 when he had been perfected, he became for al who obey him the source of eternal salvation9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek.10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 On this subject we have many things to say, and they are difficult to explain because you have grownso slow at understanding.11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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.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 of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 Truly, no one who is stil living on milk can digest the doctrine of saving justice, being stil a baby.13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 Solid food is for adults with minds trained by practice to distinguish between good and bad.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.