Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 12:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 12 in context

Scripture Focus

15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

1 Corinthians 12:15-17

Biblical Context

The passage uses the foot, ear, eye, and other parts to show that every member has a place in the body. True unity arises when we honor each function rather than compare ourselves.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your inner theater, the foot's complaint that it is not the hand is a belief in separation within the I AM. The body Paul describes is your entire state of consciousness; each part is a function of your awareness, not a separate creature. When you deem yourself the foot because you are not the eye, you are simply projecting a division in your own mind. Neville's method says the whole body is present whenever your awareness holds the vision of unity. If your inner eye can imagine all parts working in harmony, you are reconfiguring the very picture of yourself. The eye and ear do not compete; they complement a single life, and so do you with every faculty you possess. Your worth is not in one function but in the integrated I AM that animates the whole. So the remedy is inner revision: declare, in feeling and speech, that you are the whole body, that all parts are essential expressions of your consciousness, and that the seeming lack is merely a misunderstood state of awareness.