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

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

³And because of this he is obligated, even as for the people so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins.

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

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

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

⁷He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the One being able to rescue him from death, and having been heard because of his reverence,

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

⁹and having been perfected, he became to all those obeying him the author of eternal salvation,

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

¹¹Concerning this there is much speech from us, and difficult in interpretation to speak, since you have become sluggish in the hearings.

¹²For even though by the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again of one to teach you what is the principles of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become those having need of milk and not of solid food.

¹³For everyone who is partaking only of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he is an infant;

¹⁴but solid food is for the mature, for those who through constant use have the senses trained for the ability to distinguish both good and evil.