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order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>and because of it he is obligated to offer <i>sacrifices</i> for sins, as for the people, so also for himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>And no one takes the honor to himself, but <i>receives it</i> when he is called by God, even as Aaron was. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,<br>         Y<font size="1">OU ARE</font> M<font size="1">Y</font> S<font size="1">ON</font>,<br>         T<font size="1">ODAY</font> I <font size="1">HAVE BEGOTTEN</font> Y<font size="1">OU</font>;<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>just as He says also in another <i>passage,</i><br>         Y<font size="1">OU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER</font><br>         A<font size="1">CCORDING TO</font> <font size="1">THE ORDER OF</font> M<font size="1">ELCHIZEDEK</font>.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Concerning him we have much to say, and <i>it is</i> hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>For everyone who partakes <i>only</i> of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/5-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hebrews/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hebrews/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/hebrews/5.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hebrews/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hebrews/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/hebrews/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For every High Priest is chosen from among men, and is appointed to act on behalf of men in matters relating to God, in order to offer both gifts and sin-offerings,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hebrews/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hebrews/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xl_the_lesson_of.htm">The Lesson of Life</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Fifth Sunday in Lent. Chester Training College, 1870. Windsor Castle, 1871. Hebrews v. 7, 8. "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; though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered." This is the lesson of life. This is God's way of educating us, of making us men and women worthy of the name of men and women, worthy <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xl_the_lesson_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_115_the_ministerial_office.htm">The Ministerial Office</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"No man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." Hebrews 5:4. 1. There are exceeding few texts of Holy Scripture which have been more frequently urged than this against laymen, that are neither Priests nor Deacons, and yet take upon them to preach. Many have asked, "How dare any take this honour to himself, unless he be called of God, as was Aaron?'" And a pious and sensible clergyman some years ago published a sermon on these words, wherein he endeavours to show <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_115_the_ministerial_office.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/shedd/sermons_to_the_natural_man/the_necessity_of_divine_influences.htm">The Necessity of Divine Influences. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">LUKE xi. 13.--"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" The reality, and necessity, of the operation of the Holy Spirit upon the human heart, is a doctrine very frequently taught in the Scriptures. Our Lord, in the passage from which the text is taken, speaks of the third Person in the Trinity in such a manner as to convey the impression that His agency is as indispensable, in order <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/shedd/sermons_to_the_natural_man/the_necessity_of_divine_influences.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">William G.T. Shedd—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons to the Natural Man</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/our_compassionate_high_priest.htm">Our Compassionate High Priest</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"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."--Hebrews 5:2 The high priest looked Godward, and therefore he had need to be holy; for he had to deal with things pertaining to God. But at the same time he looked manward; it was for men that he was ordained, that, through him, they might deal with God; and therefore he had need to be tender. It was necessary that he should be one who could have sympathy with men; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/our_compassionate_high_priest.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sergieff/on_the_christian_life/chapter_iii_of_bearing_the.htm">Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The four divisions of this chapter are,--I. The nature of the cross, its necessity and dignity, sec. 1, 2. II. The manifold advantages of the cross described, sec. 3-6. III. The form of the cross the most excellent of all, and yet it by no means removes all sense of pain, sec. 7, 8. IV. A description of warfare under the cross, and of true patience, (not that of philosophers,) after the example of Christ, sec. 9-11. 1. THE pious mind must ascend still higher, namely, whither Christ calls his disciples <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sergieff/on_the_christian_life/chapter_iii_of_bearing_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Archpriest John Iliytch Sergieff—</span><span class="citation2">On the Christian Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_essentials_of_prayer/i_prayer_takes_in_the.htm">Prayer Takes in the Whole Man</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Henry Clay Trumbull spoke forth the Infinite in the terms of our world, and the Eternal in the forms of our human life. Some years ago, on a ferry-boat, I met a gentleman who knew him, and I told him that when I had last seen Dr. Trumbull, a fortnight before, he had spoken of him. Oh, yes,' said my friend, he was a great Christian, so real, so intense. He was at my home years ago and we were talking about prayer.' Why, Trumbull,' I said, you don't mean to say if you lost a pencil you would pray <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_essentials_of_prayer/i_prayer_takes_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Edward M. Bounds—</span><span class="citation2">The Essentials of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_reality_of_prayer/i_prayera_privilege_princely_sacred.htm">Prayer --A Privilege, Princely, Sacred</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I am the creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God! <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_reality_of_prayer/i_prayera_privilege_princely_sacred.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Edward M. Bounds—</span><span class="citation2">The Reality of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_reality_of_prayer/vii_jesus_christ_an_example.htm">Jesus Christ an Example of Prayer</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Christ, when He saw that He must die, and that nowHis time was come, He wore His body out: He cared not, as it were, what became of Him: He wholly spent Himself in preaching all day, and in praying all night, preaching in the temple those terrible parables and praying in the garden such prayers, as the seventeenth of John, and "Thy will be done!" even to a bloody sweat.--Thomas Goodwin. The Bible record of the life of Jesus Christ gives but a glance of His busy doing, a small selection of His many <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_reality_of_prayer/vii_jesus_christ_an_example.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Edward M. Bounds—</span><span class="citation2">The Reality of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_weapon_of_prayer/vii_the_ministry_and_prayer.htm">The Ministry and Prayer</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Of course the preacher is above all others distinguished as a man of prayer. He prays as an ordinary Christian, else he were a hypocrite. He prays more than ordinary Christians else he were disqualified for the office he has undertaken If you as ministers are not very prayerful you are to be pitied. If you become lax in sacred devotion, not only will you need to be pitied but your people also, and the day cometh in which you will be ashamed and confounded. Our seasons of fastings and prayer at the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the_weapon_of_prayer/vii_the_ministry_and_prayer.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Edward M. Bounds—</span><span class="citation2">The Weapon of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against_lying/section_38_but_infirmity_pleadeth.htm">But Infirmity Pleadeth Its Part, and with Favor of the Crowds Proclaims Itself To...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">38. But infirmity pleadeth its part, and with favor of the crowds proclaims itself to have a cause invincible. Where it contradicts, and says, "What way is there among men, who without doubt by being deceived are turned aside from a deadly harm to others or themselves, to succor men in peril, if our affection as men may not incline us to lie?" If it will hear me patiently, this crowd of mortality, crowd of infirmity, I will say somewhat in answer on the behalf of truth. Surely at the least pious, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against_lying/section_38_but_infirmity_pleadeth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">Against Lying</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_continence/section_14_and_some_indeed.htm">And Some Indeed, who are Used to Excuse their Own Sins...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">14. And some indeed, who are used to excuse their own sins, complain that they are driven to sin by fate, as though the stars had decreed this, and heaven had first sinned by decreeing such, in order that man should after sin by committing such, and thus had rather impute their sin to fortune: who think that all things are driven to and fro by chance accidents, and yet contend that this their wisdom and assertion is not of chance rashness, but of ascertained reason. What madness then is it, to lay <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_continence/section_14_and_some_indeed.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">On Continence</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/hebrews/5-1.htm">Hebrews 5:1 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hebrews/4-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hebrews 4:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hebrews 4:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hebrews/5-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hebrews 5:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hebrews 5:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/hebrews/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>