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1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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For 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:
2 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
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Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.
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And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
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Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.
5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
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So 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.
6 as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
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As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.
7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
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Who 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.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
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And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
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And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:
10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
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Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
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Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
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For 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.
13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
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For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.
14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
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But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.
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