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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/hebrews/5.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Qualifications for High Priesthood</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Heb-5-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things <i>pertaining</i> to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He can <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer <i>sacrifices</i> for sins. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron <i>was.</i></span></p> <h3> A Priest Forever</span></h3><p><span class="text Heb-5-5"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but <i>it was</i> He who said to Him:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Heb-5-5"><span class="oblique">“You are My Son,</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-5-5"><span class="oblique">Today I have begotten You.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>As <i>He</i> also says in another <i>place:</i></span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Heb-5-6"><span class="oblique">“You</span> <i>are</i> <span class="oblique">a priest forever</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-5-6"><span class="oblique">According to the order of Melchizedek”</span>;</span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>though He was a Son, <i>yet</i> He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>called by God as High Priest <span class="oblique">“according to the order of Melchizedek,”</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.</span></p> <h3> Spiritual Immaturity</span></h3><p><span class="text Heb-5-12"><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 <i>someone</i> to teach you again the first principles of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For everyone who partakes <i>only</i> of milk <i>is</i> unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But solid food belongs to those who are <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>of full age, <i>that is,</i> those who by reason of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-30033a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hebrews 5:2">Hebrews 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>deal gently with</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30043b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hebrews 5:12">Hebrews 5:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>sayings,</i> Scriptures</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30045c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hebrews 5:14">Hebrews 5:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>mature</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30045d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hebrews 5:14">Hebrews 5:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>practice</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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