Charity Edifies Inner Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 8 in context

Scripture Focus

1Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1 Corinthians 8:1

Biblical Context

Paul reminds us that we may claim knowledge about things offered to idols, but knowledge puffs up; charity, or love, is what truly edifies. Love, not cleverness, builds others and the community.

Neville's Inner Vision

Know this: the idol in your verse is any fixed notion you cling to about yourself or the world. We are told we all have knowledge, yet knowledge puffs up when it becomes the sole measure of worth. The I AM, your living awareness, stands behind every thought and feeling, choosing the state you inhabit. When you entertain charity, that is, the living love that unites, you edify; you strengthen the inner temple where God dwells. Imagine knowledge not as a weapon to prove your rightness, but as a tool in service of unity. In the theater of imagination, let the feeling-tone of charity be your baseline: I am the edifier, I am the love that builds, not the one who proves. As you dwell in that state, outer circumstances bend to reflect a more harmonious reality. The idols lose their power, and your life becomes a seamless expression of your awakened consciousness.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that you are the edifying presence of love in action; revise any prideful 'I know' to 'I love.' Sit with that state and observe how your inner atmosphere shifts toward unity.

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