1For 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:
2who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;
3and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron.
5So 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:
6as he saith also in another [place,] Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
7Who 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,
