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Hebrews 5
1For every , being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and for sins.
2The can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
3Because of this, he must offer for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
4Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
5So also didn’t glorify himself to be made a , but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
6As he says also in another place, “You are a forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal ,
10named by God a after the order of Melchizedek.
11About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in of , for he is a baby.
14But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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How do I resist temptation?
Scripture says God always provides a way of escape, that temptation begins with desire inside us rather than with God, and that the ordinary means of resisting are watching, praying, walking by the Spirit, hiding God's word in the heart, and fleeing rather than negotiating. It does not promise that temptation stops, and it sends the tempted person to a High Priest who was tempted himself and can be approached for help.
What does the Bible say about contentment?
Scripture presents contentment as something learned rather than felt, grounded in a promise rather than in circumstances. Paul says he learned it in plenty and in hunger, Hebrews grounds it in God's word that he will never forsake us, and 1 Timothy calls godliness with contentment great gain while naming food and clothing as enough.
Who is Jesus?
Scripture introduces Jesus of Nazareth as a real man in real history who is also the eternal Word through whom everything was made. He is the promised Christ of Israel, the Son of God, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised on the third day, and now confessed as Lord. The Bible never presents him only as a teacher, and it never lets him remain a private opinion. It records him asking his own followers the question and waiting for their answer.
Is Jesus God?
Scripture says yes, and it does not say it in one verse only. Jesus is called God directly, is said to have made all things, forgives sins, receives worship, and takes to himself words that the Old Testament reserves for Yahweh. At the same time he prays to the Father, obeys the Father and calls the Father greater. The Bible holds both together without apology, and the reader who wants an honest answer has to read the whole case rather than one proof text.