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For every high priest taken from among men is constituted for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;
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being able to forbear with the ignorant and erring, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
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and on account of this he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins.
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And no one taketh the honour to himself but called by God, just as Aaron also.
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So the Christ also glorified not himself to be made high priest; but he that spoke unto him, My Son art thou: I Today have begotten thee;
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even as also in another [place] he saith, Thou [art] priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek;
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who in the days of his flesh having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him that was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears, and having been heard because of his godly fear,
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though being Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered,
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and, perfected, he became to all those that obey him author of salvation everlasting,
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addressed by God high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
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Of whom we have much to say and hard to be interpreted in speaking, since ye have become dull of hearing.
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For when on account of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that someone teach you the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, not of solid food.
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For every one that partaketh of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness; for he is an infant.
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But solid food belongeth to perfect, those that on account of habit have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.