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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hebrews 5 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hebrews/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Hebrews 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hebrews/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Every high priest is a man chosen to represent other people in their dealings with God. He presents their gifts to God and offers sacrifices for their sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he is able to deal gently with ignorant and wayward people because he himself is subject to the same weaknesses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>That is why he must offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as theirs.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And no one can become a high priest simply because he wants such an honor. He must be called by God for this work, just as Aaron was. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That is why Christ did not honor himself by assuming he could become High Priest. No, he was chosen by God, who said to him,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“You are my Son.</p><p class="line2">Today I have become your Father.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>”</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And in another passage God said to him,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And God designated him to be a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.</p><p class="hdg">A Call to Spiritual Growth</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Today I reveal you as my Son.</span><span class="ft"> Ps 2:7.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Ps 110:4.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">about the oracles of God.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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