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href="../hebrews/4.htm" title="Hebrews 4">◄</a> Hebrews 5 <a href="../hebrews/6.htm" title="Hebrews 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hebrews/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“You are my Son,</span><br /><span class="indent">today I have begotten you”;</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>as he says also in another place,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“You are a priest forever,</span><br /><span class="indent">after the order of Melchizedek.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In the days of his flesh, Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">a</a></sup></span> offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.</p> <p class="heading">Warning Against Apostasy</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Greek <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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