Bodies as Christ's Members
1 Corinthians 6:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Corinthians 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse asserts that our bodies are the members of Christ and we must not unite them with immorality; such a union is forbidden. It calls us to honor the temple—our own living being—as sacred and devoted to God.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of the I AM as the owner of every cell and breath. The verse asks you to awaken to a simple, radical fact: your body is the members of Christ, therefore it cannot be joined to anything that denies that unity. You are not a divided self; consciousness is one, and that oneness expresses through the body. The 'harlot' embodies the illusion of separation—the belief you can have a part of yourself attached to what you know is not God. To honor the temple you do not struggle with the body but revise the sense of self from separate appetite to divine instrument. See yourself as the living temple, Christ-in-you, radiating purity with every choice. When you hold to this, the lower impulse loses its charge, and your actions arise from a center of love rather than fear. The discipline is interior: assume the state of union here and now, and the outward life rearranges itself to reflect that inner reality.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise: I am the temple of God. Feel-it-real that your body is Christ's members, whole and pure.
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