Neville Goddard on 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 3 in context

Scripture Focus

7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

2 Corinthians 3:7-11

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts the old covenant’s glory—the ministration of death written on stones—with the Spirit’s ministry of righteousness. It states that what was glorious then is surpassed by the enduring glory of what remains.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a mind waking from stone-bound habit into living awareness. The ministration of death is a state of consciousness fixed in law, fear, and external form, a radiance that soon loses its grip. The Spirit’s ministration, by contrast, is the living breath of your I AM—awareness that makes you alive to what is true. The glory of the old covenant is surpassed by the righteousness that endures, not because it is more impressive in form, but because it is alive within your consciousness. If you identify with the Spirit, the outer symbols fade, yet the inner light remains and grows brighter. The arrows of condemnation lose their power when you recognize you are the very rapture and clarity that the law sought to point to. Thus, the present glory is greater not by addition of rules, but by the expansion of awareness into the New Covenant that writes not on tablets, but on the heart.

Practice This Now

Assume right now that you are the New Covenant; feel the living righteousness as your present awareness and let any sense of separation dissolve as you rest in I AM.