Hebrews 5

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN 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 Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before 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.	2 He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness
3 That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as wel as for the people.	3 and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.
4 No one takes this honour on himself; it needs a cal from God, as in Aaron's case.	4 No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
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 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 and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek.	6 just as he says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to 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,	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 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings;	8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;
9 when he had been perfected, he became for al who obey him the source of eternal salvation	9 and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
10 and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek.	10 declared by God high priest according to 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.	11 About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in 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 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 Truly, no one who is stil living on milk can digest the doctrine of saving justice, being stil a baby.	13 Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.
14 Solid food is for adults with minds trained by practice to distinguish between good and bad.	14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.