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1 Every chief priest is chosen from humans to represent them in front of God, that is, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sin. 2 The chief priest can be gentle with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, because he also has weaknesses. 3 Because he has weaknesses, he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins in the same way that he does for the sins of his people. 4 No one takes this honor for himself. Instead, God calls him as he called Aaron. 5 So Christ did not take the glory of being a chief priest for himself. Instead, the glory was given to him by God, who said, |You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.| 6 In another place in Scripture, God said, |You are a priest forever, in the way Melchizedek was a priest.| Hebrews 5:1-6, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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