Hebrews 5

1For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

1Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

2Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

2He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

3And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

3And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

4Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

4And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

5So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

5In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

6As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

6As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

7Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

7Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

8And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

8And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

9And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

9And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

10Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.

10Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

11Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

11Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

12For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

12And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

13For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

13For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

14But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

14But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.