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.”