Hebrews:5

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* For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God , that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins . * He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray , since he himself is also subject to weakness . * Because of this he is required as for the people , so also for himself , to offer sacrifices for sins . * And no man takes this honor to himself , but he who is called by God , just as Aaron was . * So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest , but it was He who said to Him : "You are My Son , Today I have begotten You ." * As He also says in another place : "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek "; * who , in the days of His flesh , when He had offered up prayers and supplications , with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death , and was heard because of His godly fear , * though He was a Son , yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered . * And having been perfected , He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him , * called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek ," * of whom we have much to say , and hard to explain , since you have become dull of hearing . * 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 milk and not solid food . * For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness , for he is a babe . * But solid food belongs to those who are of full age , that is , those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil .

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