Neville Goddard on 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 7 in context

Scripture Focus

10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

11For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

Biblical Context

Godly sorrow leads to repentance that brings salvation; worldly sorrow leads to death, and the passage shows the Corinthians moving from sorrow to clear, ethical action.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider sorrow as a movement of consciousness: godly sorrow is the turn of awareness toward alignment with the I AM, a shift that makes repentance real in the inner state. When you accept this turn, you revise your beliefs and allow a new state to unfold - salvation as your present awareness rather than a distant event. The contrasts shown in the passage - carefulness, clearing of yourselves, indignation, fear, zeal, and revenge - become inner practices that refine your self-conception. The worldly sorrow that leads to death represents clinging to limitation; godly sorrow dissolves that cling by granting you permission to claim integrity, to forbid the old posture of lack, and to intensify your desire for purity. As you dwell in this transformed state, you discover you are not awaiting salvation, but embodying it in consciousness here and now, proving that repentance is a shift in the state of the Self, not a ritual of the past.