Hebrews 5

¹For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

²being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also encompassed by weakness;

³And because of this obligation, he must offer sacrifices for sins just as for the people, so also for himself.

⁴And no one takes the honor upon himself, but only the one called by God, just as also Aaron.

⁵So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but the one who said to him: 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you.'

⁶even as he says also in another place: "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."

⁷In the days of his flesh, he offered up both prayers and supplications to the one who was able to save him from death, with loud crying and tears, and was heard because of his reverence.

⁸though being a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered;

⁹And having been perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

¹⁰having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹Concerning this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

¹²For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you again have need of someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have become those who have need of milk and not of solid food.

¹³For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

¹⁴But solid food is for the mature, for those who through practice have their senses trained to distinguish both good and evil.