The Hebrews author moved to assure his audience of his confidence in their salvation and awareness of their faith and works. He was not nearly as concerned about their heritage and present as he was with their continued endurance in the faith in Christ Jesus.

The New and Living Way | Episode 14 | Hebrews 6:9-12

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak: for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end: that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.