5 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: ² who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; ³ and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. ⁴ And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron. ⁵ So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him,

⁶ as he saith also in another place,

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him ^[c]from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, ⁸ though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; ⁹ and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the ^[d]author of eternal salvation; ¹⁰ named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹ Of ^[e]whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. ¹² For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again ^[f]that some one teach you the rudiments of the ^[g]first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. ¹³ For every one that partaketh of milk is ^[h]without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. ¹⁴ But solid food is for ^[i]fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.