mnt - Hebrews:5-6

mnt@Hebrews:5:1 @ For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

mnt@Hebrews:5:2 @ He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with moral weakness,

mnt@Hebrews:5:3 @ and because of this weakness he is bound to offer sin-offerings not only for the people, but also for himself.

mnt@Hebrews:5:4 @ Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

mnt@Hebrews:5:5 @ So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

mnt@Hebrews:5:6 @ and again, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:5:7 @ In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

mnt@Hebrews:5:8 @ Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience through the things which he suffered;

mnt@Hebrews:5:9 @ and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

mnt@Hebrews:5:10 @ while God himself pronounced him High Priest according to the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:5:11 @ Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

mnt@Hebrews:5:12 @ And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

mnt@Hebrews:5:13 @ For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

mnt@Hebrews:5:14 @ But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

mnt@Hebrews:6:1 @ So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

mnt@Hebrews:6:2 @ of faith in God, of the teaching regarding ablutions and the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

mnt@Hebrews:6:3 @ And this we will do, if God permit.

mnt@Hebrews:6:4 @ For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

mnt@Hebrews:6:5 @ and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

mnt@Hebrews:6:6 @ and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame.

mnt@Hebrews:6:7 @ For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God;

mnt@Hebrews:6:8 @ but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

mnt@Hebrews:6:9 @ But though we thus speak, we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things that accompany salvation.

mnt@Hebrews:6:10 @ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

mnt@Hebrews:6:11 @ but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

mnt@Hebrews:6:12 @ Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

mnt@Hebrews:6:13 @ For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

mnt@Hebrews:6:14 @ Surely I will bless you, and bless you; I will increase you, and increase you.

mnt@Hebrews:6:15 @ And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

mnt@Hebrews:6:16 @ I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

mnt@Hebrews:6:17 @ On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

mnt@Hebrews:6:18 @ that by means of two immutable things - his promise and his oath - in which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

mnt@Hebrews:6:19 @ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

mnt@Hebrews:6:20 @ whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:7:1 @ It was this Melchisedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;