Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 5:5-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:5-8

Biblical Context

Paul speaks of purging the old leaven of impurity to protect the whole; the feast must be kept in sincerity and truth, not in malice.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened heart, the 'deliver such an one unto Satan' is a word picture for letting old beliefs reveal themselves to the testing fires of awareness until the flesh yields to the real. The day of the Lord Jesus is the moment consciousness recognizes itself as I AM, the sole reality behind every scene. The leaven is any habit or pride that lightly hovers in your lump of self; a little of it soon dominates the whole, unless you purge it with deliberate attention. Purge out the old leaven by turning from the external tale and turning inward to the unchanging You, the Passover Christ within. When you keep the feast with sincerity and truth, you acknowledge that your true state is unleavened, untouched by malice, wickedness, or fear. This is not punishment but a correction of imagination: you are re-scripting your life by aligning with the truth of being. The spirit, not the surface event, is being saved by your awakened awareness.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, affirm, 'I am the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,' and feel the old self dissolve as you revise it in imagination and keep the feast within.