1 | For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. |
2 | He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. |
3 | Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. |
12 | For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food; |
13 | for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child. |
14 | But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. |