14Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to the confession.15For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way, just like us, yet without sin.16Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we might receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
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Chapter 5
1For every high priest, taken from among humans, is appointed on behalf of humans in matters pertaining to God, so that he might offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,2able to deal gently with those who sin ignorantly and go astray, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness,3And because of this he is obligated, just as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins.4No one takes this honor on himself, but only the one called by God, just as Aaron was.5In this way Christ also did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him: "You are my Son; today I have begotten you."6just as also in another place he says, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek,"7who in the days of his flesh offered both supplications and entreaties with loud cries and tears to the one able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence,8although being Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered,9and, having been perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,10having been named by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.