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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 chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for 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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He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness;
3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.
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 one does not presume to take this honor, but takes it only when called by God, 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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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";
6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.
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as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, according to 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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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.
8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
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Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;
9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:
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and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
10 Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.
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having been designated by God a high priest according to 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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About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding.
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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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;
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 everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.
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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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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