Christ’s priesthood is greater than Aaron’s
5
📚✭For every✭ high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 📚He should be able to have compassion on those lacking understanding✭ and on those who have gone astray, since he himself is clothed with weakness. 3 📚Because of this he is obligated to make offerings for sin for himself✭, as well as for the people✭.The necessity for God’s call
4 📚And no man takes this honour for himself, but only he who is called of God, as Aaron was.
5 📚So Christ also did not glorify himself to become high priest, but he who said to him,
You are my Son,
today I have begotten you,
Priesthood in the order of Melchizedek
6 📚✭also speaks like this in another place,
You are a priest forever according
to the order of Melchizedek✭.
7 📚✭Jesus, during the days of his earthly life in the body, when he had offered up prayers and requests✭ with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death✭, was heard because of his reverence. 8 📚Despite being the Son, he still learned the meaning of obedience✭ by the things he suffered, 9 📚and being made perfect✭ he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him✭. 10 📚He was called of God to be high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
THIRD WARNING: Do not fall away
11 📚✭We have many things to say concerning him, things difficult to explain, because you are slow to understand what you hear. 12 📚✭By now you ought to be teachers, but you still need someone to teach you again the basic things of God’s revelation, and have become like those who need milk and not solid food✭. 13 📚For everyone who takes milk is inexperienced in the teaching✭ of righteousness✭, for he is a little child. 14 📚But solid food is for those who have grown up✭, to those who by continual use have trained their minds to discern both good and evil.