Open Sins, Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the verse is not about external moral law but about your present awareness. Sins are not conditions in a distant heaven; they are currents of your inner consciousness that precede expression. 'Open beforehand' signifies the sins you have already imagined and accepted into your state of being, which march before you into every scene you enter, drawing judgment as the inevitable consequence of that inner climate. 'Follow after' are those sins that creep in as you entertain fear, resentment, or lack of possibility; they trail you into future thoughts until a new feeling of guilt becomes your next reality. The remedy is not punishment from without but a revision of what you assume about yourself here and now. By choosing a different I AM—what you accept as true about who you are—you shift the inner movements that precede action, and the external results align with your revised sense of self. Judgment, then, is the natural law of consciousness, not a distant tribunal; you prefigure it or outrun it by your present state.