Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

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 5:6-8

Biblical Context

Paul warns that a little glorying in old ways contaminates the whole; purge the old leaven to become a new lump, living as unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner leaven is the belief that you are defined by externals—glorying in status, by old habits, by grievances. Paul does not threaten you with judgment; he invites you to awaken to who you already are: the unrisen, uncorrupted awareness that Christ, the Passover, is sacrificed for you in this present moment. The 'lump' is your life when you trust separateness; the moment you revise that belief, the lump becomes new, unleavened by fear and malice. Purge is not punishment but a change of state of consciousness: you remove the old leaven by discovering that the I AM within you is untouched by past sins, and you choose to keep the feast with sincerity and truth. As you hold your attention only on this higher state, the whole of your experience supports that truth. The inner Christ takes the place of pride and malice; you live as the reality you imagine yourself to be, so imagine yourself now as pure, whole, and awake to truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, assume the state 'I am the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,' and feel old motives dissolve. Then revise a recent judgment by forgiving and aligning your speech with honesty.