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Chapter 5 |
| 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 | 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. |
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3 | And by reason hereof he
ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. |
| 4 |
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as
was Aaron. |
| 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 |
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec. |
| 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 |
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered; |
| 9 | And being made perfect, he became the author
of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; |
| 10 | Called of
God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. |
| 11 | Of whom we
have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of
hearing. |
| 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.
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| 13 | For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness:
for he is a babe. |
| 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. |
