1 For every high priest, taken from among men, is set in place on men's behalf for matters concerning God, to bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2 He is capable of moderate feeling toward the ignorant and the wandering, since he too wears weakness about him;
3 and on account of it he must bring offerings for sins on his own account as well as for the people.
4 And no one takes the honor for himself; only the one called by God takes it, as Aaron was.
5 Thus Christ too did not glorify himself in becoming high priest; it was the one who spoke to him: "You are my Son; today I have begotten you."
6 So too he says elsewhere, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
7 In the days of his flesh, with strong outcry and tears, he brought requests and entreaties to the one able to save him out of death, and he was heard for his reverent fear;
8 and though he was a Son, it was from his sufferings that he learned obedience;
9 and having been brought to perfection, he became for all who obey him the cause of eternal salvation,
10 addressed by God as high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
11 On this subject our discourse is long and hard to put into words, because you have grown slow to hear.
12 Indeed, considering the time, you ought to be teachers, yet you again need someone to teach you the elementary principles of the words of God, and you have become people who need milk and not solid food.
13 For anyone who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness; he is an infant.
14 But solid food belongs to the full-grown, who through habit have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.