Charity's Quiet Endurance

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 13 in context

Scripture Focus

8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:8-13

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts eternal charity with fading gifts, saying we know and prophesy in part, and that the perfect state will make the partial obsolete; faith, hope, and especially love endure, with love being the greatest.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the living God not as an distant power but as the I AM within you, a steady light that never faileth. The gifts—prophecy, tongues, knowledge—are only partial visions that vanish as your consciousness widens. When you encounter 'that which is perfect is come,' you are invited to recognize your own perfect state as present now, not somewhere ahead. In the quiet of imagination, release the impulse to chase results and rest in the mature awareness that you are known as you know. So revise your inner atmosphere: make charity your native air, feel it as your true worth, harmony, and unity. As you dwell in that state, the glass grows clear and you face your authentic self. Faith and hope express this love, not as distant rewards but as expressions of the inner light. Charity remains; through loving, you uncover the eternal you—the I AM—and the outer gifts fall into place as reflections of that single illumination.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are charity now—feel it in your heart for a full minute, then observe how this inner state colors any situation you encounter, reshaping perception into unity.

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