1 Want elke hoëpriester wat uit die mense geneem word, tree ten behoewe van mense op in die dinge wat in betrekking tot God staan, om gawes en offers vir die sondes te bring

2 as een wat kan saamvoel met die onwetendes en dwalendes, omdat hy self ook met swakheid bevange is.

3 En daarom juis moet hy, net soos vir die volk, so ook vir homself vanweë die sondes offer.

4 En niemand neem die waardigheid vir homself nie, maar hy wat deur God geroep word, net soos A„ron.

5 So het Christus ook Homself nie verheerlik om Hoëpriester te word nie, maar Hy het Hom verheerlik wat vir Hom gesê het: U is my Seun, vandag het Ek U gegenereer.

6 Soos Hy ook op 'n ander plek sê: U is priester vir ewig volgens die orde van Melgis,dek.

7 Hy wat in die dae van sy vlees gebede en smekinge met sterk geroep en trane aan Hom geoffer het wat Hom uit die dood kon red, en ook verhoor is uit die angs --

8 Hy, al was Hy die Seun, het gehoorsaamheid geleer uit wat Hy gely het;

9 en nadat Hy volmaak is, het Hy vir almal wat Hom gehoorsaam is, 'n bewerker van ewige saligheid geword

10 en is deur God genoem 'n hoëpriester volgens die orde van Melgis,dek;

11 waaroor ons veel te sê het wat swaar is om te verklaar, omdat julle traag geword het om te hoor.

12 Want hoewel julle vanweë die tyd leraars behoort te wees, het julle weer nodig dat 'n mens julle die eerste beginsels van die woorde van God moet leer, en julle het weer behoefte aan melk en nie aan vaste spys nie.

13 Want elkeen wat melk gebruik, is onervare in die woord van geregtigheid, omdat hy 'n kind is.

14 Maar vaste spys is vir volwassenes, vir die wat geestesvermoëns besit deur die gewoonte geoefen, om goed van kwaad te onderskei.

1 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,

Thou art my Son,

This day have I begotten thee:

6 as he saith also in another place,

Thou art a priest for ever

After the order of Melchizedek.

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 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 author of eternal salvation; 10 named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

11 Of 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 that some one teach you the rudiments of the 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 without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.