But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
9. But we are persuaded, etc. As the preceding sentences were like thunderbolts, by which readers might have been struck dead, it was needful to mitigate this severity. He therefore says now, that he did not speak in this strain, as though he entertained such an opinion of them.
There are things that accompany salvation, better things than any hypocrite or apostate ever enjoyed, and they will not be forgotten of God. What is done to the saints as such, God takes as done to Himself, and shall not go unrewarded.
AI summary
Commenting on Hebrews 6:9-20
For God is not unrighteous,.... He is just and true, righteous in all his ways and works; there is no unrighteousness nor unfaithfulness in him; and this the apostle makes a reason of his strong persuasion of better things concerning the believing Hebrews; because he was well satisfied of the good work upon them, and he was assured that God was not unrighteous and unfaithful...