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| [1]For every chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, |
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| [2]able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity; |
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| [3]and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins; |
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| [4]and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron: |
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| [5]so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;' |
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| [6]as also in another [place] He saith, `Thou [art] a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;' |
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| [7]who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared, |
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| [8]through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience, |
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| [9]and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during, |
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| [10]having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek, |
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| [11]concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, |
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| [12]for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, |
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| [13]for every one who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, |
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| [14]and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil. |
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