Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 6 in context

Scripture Focus

12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Biblical Context

The passage teaches that although many things are lawful, not all are beneficial; the body is for the Lord, you are not your own, and you should flee immorality, honoring the Holy Spirit who dwells within you.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true self is not a collection of appetites but the I AM, the one spirit in union with the Lord. The 'bodily appetites' and the 'belly for meats' are mere figures in the theater of consciousness, here to remind you that all things are permitted in imagination but not all sustain your divine state. When Paul says the body is for the Lord, he whispers that this form is the temple in which God dwells—awareness realized as sensation, not as a cage. To be joined to the Lord is to awaken as one spirit; to join with a harlot is to split your sense of self into fragments. In my mind, the moment I perceive myself as bought with a price, I reclaim ownership from fear and attach my desire to the truth of unity with God. Hence, sin is simply mistaking a thought for reality—my body merely reflects my present state of consciousness. If I imagine my body and life aligned with the Holy Spirit, I activate a healing and elevation that is already mine by the inner I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume in stillness that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit; declare 'I am joined to the Lord in spirit' and feel that unity as real. Let every impulse align with that truth.