Hebrews 5
Qualifications for High Priesthood
For every high priest taken from among men ais appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to aweakness. 3 Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for ahimself, to offer sacrifices for sins. 4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as aAaron was.
A Priest Forever
5 aSo also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:
b“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.”
6 As He also says in another place:
a“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”;
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had aoffered up prayers and supplications, bwith vehement cries and tears to Him cwho was able to save Him from death, and was heard dbecause of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned aobedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And ahaving been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest a“according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11 of whom awe have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become bdull of hearing.
Spiritual Immaturity
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need amilk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is aa babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised ato discern both good and evil. The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson.
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