Hebrews:5-8
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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 :
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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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And by reason hereof he ought ,
as for the people ,
so also for himself ,
to offer for sins .
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And no man taketh this honour unto himself ,
but he that is called of God ,
as was Aaron .
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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 .
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As he saith also in another place ,
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec .
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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 ;
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Though he were a Son ,
yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered ;
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And being made perfect ,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him ;
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Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec .
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Of whom we have many things to say ,
and hard to be uttered ,
seeing ye are dull of hearing .
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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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For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness :
for he is a babe .
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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 .
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Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ ,
let us go on unto perfection ;
not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works ,
and of faith toward God ,
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Of the doctrine of baptisms ,
and of laying on of hands ,
and of resurrection of the dead ,
and of eternal judgment .
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And this will we do ,
if God permit .
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For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened ,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift ,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost ,
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And have tasted the good word of God ,
and the powers of the world to come ,
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If they shall fall away ,
to renew them again unto repentance ;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh ,
and put him to an open shame .
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For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it ,
and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed ,
receiveth blessing from God :
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But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected ,
and is nigh unto cursing ;
whose end is to be burned .
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But ,
beloved ,
we are persuaded better things of you ,
and things that accompany salvation ,
though we thus speak .
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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love ,
which ye have shewed toward his name ,
in that ye have ministered to the saints ,
and do minister .
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And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end :
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That ye be not slothful ,
but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises .
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For when God made promise to Abraham ,
because he could swear by no greater ,
he sware by himself ,
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Saying ,
Surely blessing I will bless thee ,
and multiplying I will multiply thee .
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And so ,
after he had patiently endured ,
he obtained the promise .
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For men verily swear by the greater :
and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife .
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Wherein God ,
willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel ,
confirmed it by an oath :
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That by two immutable things ,
in which it was impossible for God to lie ,
we might have a strong consolation ,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us :
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Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul ,
both sure and stedfast ,
and which entereth into that within the veil ;
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Whither the forerunner is for us entered ,
even Jesus ,
made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec .
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For this Melchisedec ,
king of Salem ,
priest of the most high God ,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings ,
and blessed him ;
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To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all ;
first being by interpretation King of righteousness ,
and after that also King of Salem ,
which is ,
King of peace ;
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Without father ,
without mother ,
without descent ,
having neither beginning of days ,
nor end of life ;
but made like unto the Son of God ;
abideth a priest continually .
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Now consider how great this man was ,
unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils .
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And verily they that are of the sons of Levi ,
who receive the office of the priesthood ,
have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law ,
that is ,
of their brethren ,
though they come out of the loins of Abraham :
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But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham ,
and blessed him that had the promises .
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And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better .
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And here men that die receive tithes ;
but there he receiveth them ,
of whom it is witnessed that he liveth .
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And as I may so say ,
Levi also ,
who receiveth tithes ,
payed tithes in Abraham .
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For he was yet in the loins of his father ,
when Melchisedec met him .
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If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood , (
for under it the people received the law ,)
what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec ,
and not be called after the order of Aaron ?
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For the priesthood being changed ,
there is made of necessity a change also of the law .
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For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe ,
of which no man gave attendance at the altar .
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For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda ;
of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood .
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And it is yet far more evident :
for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest ,
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Who is made ,
not after the law of a carnal commandment ,
but after the power of an endless life .
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For he testifieth ,
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec .
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For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof .
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For the law made nothing perfect ,
but the bringing in of a better hope did ;
by the which we draw nigh unto God .
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And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest :
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For those priests were made without an oath ;
but this with an oath by him that said unto him ,
The Lord sware and will not repent ,
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec :)
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By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament .
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And they truly were many priests ,
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death :
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But this man ,
because he continueth ever ,
hath an unchangeable priesthood .
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Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him ,
seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them .
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For such an high priest became us ,
who is holy ,
harmless ,
undefiled ,
separate from sinners ,
and made higher than the heavens ;
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Who needeth not daily ,
as those high priests ,
to offer up sacrifice ,
first for his own sins ,
and then for the people '
s :
for this he did once ,
when he offered up himself .
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For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity ;
but the word of the oath ,
which was since the law ,
maketh the Son ,
who is consecrated for evermore .
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Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum :
We have such an high priest ,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens ;
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A minister of the sanctuary ,
and of the true tabernacle ,
which the Lord pitched ,
and not man .
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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices :
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer .
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For if he were on earth ,
he should not be a priest ,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law :
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Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things ,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle :
for ,
See ,
saith he ,
that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount .
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But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry ,
by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant ,
which was established upon better promises .
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For if that first covenant had been faultless ,
then should no place have been sought for the second .
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For finding fault with them ,
he saith ,
Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the Lord ,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah :
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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ;
because they continued not in my covenant ,
and I regarded them not ,
saith the Lord .
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days ,
saith the Lord ;
I will put my laws into their mind ,
and write them in their hearts :
and I will be to them a God ,
and they shall be to me a people :
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And they shall not teach every man his neighbour ,
and every man his brother ,
saying ,
Know the Lord :
for all shall know me ,
from the least to the greatest .
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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness ,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more .
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In that he saith ,
A new covenant ,
he hath made the first old .
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away .
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Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service ,
and a worldly sanctuary .
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