5:1For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

5:2being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

5:3and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

5:4And no one takes the honour to himself but as called by God, even as Aaron also.

5:5Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, *Thou* art my Son, *I* have to-day begotten thee.

5:6Even as also in another place he says, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

5:7Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

5:8though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

5:9and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation;

5:10addressed by God as high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

5:11Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

5:12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

5:13For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

5:14but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

6:1Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

6:2of the doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment;

6:3and this will we do if God permit.

6:4For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

6:5and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,

6:6and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

6:7For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;

6:8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.

6:9But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

6:11But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;

6:12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

6:13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

6:14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

6:15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

6:16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

6:17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

6:18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

6:19which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

6:20where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

7:1For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;

7:2to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;

7:3without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually.

7:4Now consider how great this personage was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

7:5And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

7:6but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

7:7But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

7:8And here dying men receive tithes; but there one of whom the witness is that he lives;

7:9and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

7:10For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

7:11If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

7:12For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also.

7:13For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

7:14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.

7:15And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec,

7:16who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

7:17For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

7:18For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

7:19(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

7:20And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

7:21(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, *Thou* art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

7:22by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

7:23And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

7:24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.

7:25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.

7:26For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

7:27who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

7:28For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which is after the law, a Son perfected for ever.