Hebrews 5

1 Every high priest is chosen from the people and is appointed to work for the people as they relate to God. He presents to God both their gifts and sacrifices for their sins.

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

2 The high priest understands how ignorant and deluded people feel because he also experiences the same kind of human weaknesses.

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

3 As a result he has to offer sacrifices for his sins as well as for those of the people.

And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

4 No one can take the position of high priest for himself; he must be chosen by God, just like Aaron was.

And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

5 In just the same way Christ did not honor himself by becoming high priest. It was God who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.”

In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

6 In another verse, God says, “You are a priest forever, following the order of Melchizedek.” (aiōn g165)

As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (aiōn g165)

7 Jesus, while he was here in human form, prayed and appealed with loud cries and tears to God, the one who was able to save him from death. Jesus was heard because of his respect for God.

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

8 Even though he was God's Son, Jesus learned through suffering what obedience really means.

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

9 When his experience was complete, he became the source of eternal salvation to everyone who does what he says, (aiōnios g166)

And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders; (aiōnios g166)

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

Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

11 We have much to say about Jesus, and it's hard to explain because you don't seem able to understand!

Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

12 By now you should have had enough time to become teachers, but you need someone to teach you the fundamentals, the first principles of God's word. It's like you need to go back to baby milk instead of solid food!

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

13 Those who drink baby milk don't have the experience of living the right way—they're just babies.

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

14 Solid food is for grown-ups—those who by always using their brains have learned to tell the difference between good and evil.

But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.