Hebrews 5:1–10

¹For every chief priest—out of men taken—in behalf of men is set in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, ²able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity; ³and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins; ⁴and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron: ⁵so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: ‘My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;’ ⁶as also in another place He saith, ‘Thou art a priest—to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;’ ⁷who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death—with strong crying and tears—having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared, ⁸through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered—the obedience, ⁹and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during.

¹⁰Having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,