(Heb 6:9) “But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.” So, those described in the previous verses were those who did not possess salvation, the born again experience, which changes our very nature: “If any man be in Christ he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Cor 5:17).