{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/hebrews/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:35:54.560Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But strong meat is for the perfect; for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 5 (DRB)","markdown":"[Hebrews 5](https://primebible.com/drb/hebrews/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/hebrews/5 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}