Neville Goddard on 1 Peter 3:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Peter 3 in context

Scripture Focus

8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 3:8-9

Biblical Context

Peter calls believers to unity in mind, compassion, brotherly love, meekness; do not repay evil with evil, but bless others, for you are called to inherit a blessing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 8-9 invites you to withdraw attention from outside opinions and enter the inner court where all is one. When you dwell on one mind you are not asking others to change; you are choosing to become the conscious unity that already hosts them. Compassion, love as brothers, gentleness, and courtesy are not ornaments but the very atmosphere of your inner state. To refuse retaliation is to stop fighting the dream with the same ingredients and to bless instead, because every character in your life is but a messenger of your own hidden self. If you find yourself railing or feeling slighted, revise the scene in imagination: replace the quarrel with a blessing, imagine the other as your ideal you, and watch your feeling shift from resistance to peace. You are called to inherit a blessing because you are already that blessing in God's awareness; the blessing is your natural law when you consent to the I AM within you as the sole mover.

Practice This Now

Practice: in the moment of conflict, revise the scene in your imagination by assuming, I and this one are one in the mind of God; I bless, and I am blessed. Feel the feeling of peace expanding through your chest.