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Hebrews 5 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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The Perfect High Priest

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For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed [to act] on behalf of men in things relating to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:2 - He is able to deal gently with the spiritually ignorant and misguided, since he is also subject to human weakness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:3 - and because of this [human weakness] he is required to offer sacrifices for sins, for himself as well as for the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:4 - And besides, one does not appropriate for himself the honor [of being high priest], but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.
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So too Christ did not glorify Himself so as to be made a high priest, but He [was exalted and appointed by the One] who said to Him,

“YOU ARE MY SON,

TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN (fathered) YOU [declared Your authority and rule over the nations]”;

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just as He also says in another place,

“YOU ARE A PRIEST [appointed] FOREVER

ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF [fn]MELCHIZEDEK.”

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In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:8 - Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:9 - And having been made perfect [uniquely equipped and prepared as Savior and retaining His integrity amid opposition], He became the source of eternal salvation [an eternal inheritance] to all those who obey Him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:10 - being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of [fn]Melchizedek.

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Concerning this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull and sluggish in [your spiritual] hearing and disinclined to listen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:12 - For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:13 - For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:14 - But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.
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