Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 9:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 9 in context

Scripture Focus

3Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

4Have we not power to eat and to drink?

5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

1 Corinthians 9:3-6

Biblical Context

Paul answers critics by claiming freedom to receive sustenance and companionship. The deeper message is that true provision follows from inner state, not external grant.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your scene is not about money or status but your inner capacity to supply yourself. When the apostle asks, 'Have we not power to eat and to drink?' he names a law of consciousness: you can only enjoy the outward form of provision when you have assumed the inner form first. The 'power' is the power of imagination, the I AM that can dwell in the feeling of being fed, clothed, and untroubled by need. The external admonitions dissolve into a single inner witness: you are free to live on the spiritual premise that your state of being creates your environment. To 'forbear working' is not neglect but a demonstration that your supply does not depend on busy externals but on the inner agreement you make with Life. Therefore, the verse invites you to shift your center of gravity from the appearance of scarcity to the menu of your own consciousness, to treat your body and days as already provided. If you dwell in the I AM and image yourself as sustained, your world will align with that reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare, 'I am supplied; I have power to eat and be sustained by the inner I AM.' Feel the truth in your body; hold the mood for a minute and revise any lack into fullness.