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Hebrews 5

John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)

Translation: WYCLIFFE
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1For ech bischop takun of men, is ordeyned for men in these thingis `that ben to God, that he offre yiftis and sacrifices for synnes.Select Hebrews 5:1

2Which may togidere sorewe with hem, that beth vnkunnynge and erren; for also he is enuyrounned with infirmytee.Select Hebrews 5:2

3And therfor he owith, as for the puple, so also for hym silf, to offre for synnes.Select Hebrews 5:3

4Nethir ony man taketh to hym onour, but he that is clepid of God, as Aaron was.Select Hebrews 5:4

5So Crist clarifiede not hym silf, that he were bischop, but he that spak to hym, Thou art my sone, to dai Y gendride thee.Select Hebrews 5:5

6As `in anothere place he seith, Thou art a prest with outen ende, aftir the ordre of Melchisedech.Select Hebrews 5:6

7Which in the daies of his fleisch offride, with greet cry and teeris, preieris and bisechingis to hym that myyte make hym saaf fro deth, and was herd for his reuerence.Select Hebrews 5:7

8And whanne he was Goddis sone, he lernyde obedience of these thingis that be suffride;Select Hebrews 5:8

9and he brouyt to the ende is maad cause of euerlastinge heelthe to alle that obeischen to hym, and is clepid of God a bischop,Select Hebrews 5:9

10bi the ordre of Melchisedech.Select Hebrews 5:10

11Of whom ther is to vs a greet word for to seie, and able to be expowned, for ye ben maad feble to here.Select Hebrews 5:11

12For whanne ye ouyten to be maistris for tyme, eftsoone ye neden that ye be tauyt, whiche ben the lettris of the bigynnyng of Goddis wordis. And ye ben maad thilke, to whiche is nede of mylk, and not sad mete.Select Hebrews 5:12

13For ech that is parcenere of mylk, is with out part of the word of riytwisnesse, for he is a litil child.Select Hebrews 5:13

14But of perfit men is sad mete, of hem that for custom han wittis exercisid to discrecioun of good and of yuel.Select Hebrews 5:14

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