| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And by reason hereof he ought , as for the people , so also for himself , to offer for sins . |
| 4 | And no man taketh this honour unto himself , but he that is called of God , as [was] Aaron . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec . |
| 7 | 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 ; |
| 8 | Though he were a Son , yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered ; |
| 9 | And being made perfect , he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him ; |
| 10 | Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec . |
| 11 | Of whom we have many things to say , and hard to be uttered , seeing ye are dull of hearing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness : for he is a babe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
