Hebrews 5

¹ For every chief-priest from men received in behalf of men is put in charge of the [things] towards God, in order that he offer gifts and sacrifices in behalf of sins, ² being able to be dealing-gently with those being ignorant and deceived, since he also is subject to weakness, ³ and because of it he ought, just as concerning the people, likewise also concerning himself to be offering concerning sins. ⁴ And not for himself do any receive honor, but being called by God, just as also Aaron. ⁵ Likewise also Christ did not glorify himself to become chief-priest, but the [one] having said to him:

You are my son, today have I begotten you.

⁶ Just as he also says elsewhere:

You are [a] priest to eternity
According to the manner of Melchizedek.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh having offered entreaties and supplications towards the [one] able to be delivering him from death, with loud cries and tears, and having been heard from awe, although being son, he learned obedience from what he suffered, ⁹ and having been completed¹ he became to all those obeying him the source of eternal deliverance, ¹⁰ having been designated by God chief-priest according to the manner of Melchizedek. ¹¹ About whom we have much to say and hard to be interpreted, since you have become dull of hearing. ¹² For owing to the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again that [one] teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God, and you have become [those] needing milk and not solid food. ¹³ For all having milk [are] inexperienced in the word of justice, for he is [an] infant. ¹⁴ But solid food belongs to the complete², those who through habit have trained their senses to distinguish good and evil.

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¹or "perfected"

²or "perfected"