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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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Every 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.
2 He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness;
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He 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;
3 and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.
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And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.
4 And one does not presume to take this honor, but takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
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And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.
5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
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In 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:
6 as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
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As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
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Who 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.
8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;
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And 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;
9 and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
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And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;
10 having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
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Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
11 About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding.
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Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;
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And 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.
13 for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.
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For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.
14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
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But 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.
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