Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 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:
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Every high priest is a man chosen to represent other people in their dealings with God. He presents their gifts to God and offers sacrifices for their sins.
2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
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And he is able to deal gently with ignorant and wayward people because he himself is subject to the same weaknesses.
3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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That is why he must offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as theirs.
4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.
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And no one can become a high priest simply because he wants such an honor. He must be called by God for this work, just as Aaron was.
5 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.
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That is why Christ did not honor himself by assuming he could become High Priest. No, he was chosen by God, who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father. ”
6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.
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And in another passage God said to him, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
7 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.
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While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.
8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
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Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.
9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:
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In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him.
10 Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.
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And God designated him to be a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.
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There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen.
12 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.
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You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.
13 For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.
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For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right.
14 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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Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
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