Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 5:11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1 Corinthians 5:11

Biblical Context

Paul commands the Corinthians not to associate with a brother who is immoral, to preserve holiness and unity by deliberate separation. This extends to guarding your inner life by not feeding harmful traits.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's lens, this verse is a map of inner boundaries. The 'brother' and the acts named are not distant men in a church, but states of consciousness within you—the fornicator, the covetous, the idolater, the railer, the drunkard, the extortioner. To 'not eat' with such a one is to refuse to feed these states in your imagination, to stop giving them attention in your inner communion. Your mind is free to disidentify from them, to place them outside your inner circle of I AM awareness. When you assume the feeling that these traits are not actually you, you sever their power to dance in your daily experience. The discipline is not judgment of others, but the ordering of your inner life so that your reality is governed by higher states—the unity of the Christ within, the holiness you are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In a moment of quiet, assume the feeling that you are already the I AM, and that you do not feed or identify with these states. Visualize your inner circle as pure, inviting only harmony into your life.