Inner Check: Faith and Self-Examination

2 Corinthians 13:5-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 13 in context

Scripture Focus

5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2 Corinthians 13:5-7

Biblical Context

Paul urges self-scrutiny: test whether you are truly in faith, recognize that Christ dwells within, and act with honesty rather than seeking outward approval.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the page as a map of your own consciousness. When Paul says examine yourselves, he invites you to look inward and ask, am I keeping faith with the living reality that I am now aware? The declaration that Jesus Christ is in you is not a distant dogma but the felt companionship of your own I AM. Reprobates, in this light, are not a future fate but a habitual state of consciousness that has forgotten its unity with truth. I trust you shall know you are not reprobates because the inner light testifies to its wholeness, even when outward voices doubt. Now I pray that you do no evil, not for appearances, but to preserve the honesty of your being; the goal is alignment, not applause. Your trials and the judgments of others are simply reflections of your inner consistency. When you live as the awareness that Christ dwells within, you naturally choose what is honest. The external conditions may stay the same, yet your inner kingdom has already shifted. In that shift, the old self dissolves and you awaken to the one Self—Christ in you.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, close your eyes, and declare: I am in the faith; Christ is in me; I am honest in all I do. Then revise any sense of separation by feeling the aliveness of the I AM here and now.

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