What Does Hebrews 6:9 Mean in the King James?

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Hebrews 6:9 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Deliverance is not alone: even after severe warning, better things remain joined to it.

THE MEANING

Even as the warning sounds, confidence about you reaches toward better things, realities joined to deliverance. Deliverance is not an abstract endpoint; its companions take shape in what preserves life and carries a person through danger.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A severe warning means you are already beyond deliverance.

THE ROOT

σωτηρίας

sōtērias

GROWS FROM

σῴζω

sōzō

To deliver, rescue, or bring safely through danger.

“salvation” in this verse is sōtērias. Here ⁨σωτηρία⁩ (sōtēria, deliverance) names what accompanies you. The same Greek noun is rendered “health” in Acts 27:34 as people face shipwreck, holding together rescue and the preservation of life where English uses different words.

ALSO GROWS

sōzō: Deliver, rescue, bring safely through.

σῴζω

The verb makes this noun active: deliverance names being brought out of danger.

sōtēr: Deliverer, rescuer.

σωτήρ

The same word family names the one who delivers, tying deliverance to a living act.

ἐχόμενα

echomena

GROWS FROM

ἔχω

echō

To have or hold; in this phrase, to be connected with or belong to.

The word translated “accompany” describes things connected with or belonging to deliverance. Its root carries the sense of having or holding, so these better things are not distant aftereffects; they belong with deliverance.

ALSO GROWS

katechō: Hold fast, retain.

κατέχω

This compound preserves the root’s sense of holding, echoing the realities that remain attached to deliverance.

synechō: Hold together, constrain, press.

συνέχω

This compound shows the root extending to what holds things together.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance is a lived preservation that can sustain life even while danger remains.

Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

Psalm 3:8 · KJVDeliverance is named as belonging to the LORD, the source from whom preservation comes.

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

Acts 27:34 · KJVThe word translated “health” is ⁨σωτηρία⁩ (sōtēria, deliverance), naming bodily preservation while danger is still present.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:9 · KJVDeliverance is described as the share appointed for people, oriented toward life rather than wrath.

THE THREAD

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

Acts 27:34 · KJV

The Greek noun ⁨σωτηρία⁩ (sōtēria, deliverance) is the same word rendered “salvation” here and “health” there. That shared word shows how deliverance’s companions can include concrete preservation in the midst of danger.

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