Neville Goddard on 2 Corinthians 9:5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 9 in context

Scripture Focus

5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

2 Corinthians 9:5

Biblical Context

Paul urges believers to prepare their offering ahead of time so it can be given as a liberal act of bounty, not out of covetousness. The emphasis is on the inner readiness that precedes outward giving.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul's exhortation is not about money so much as the state of your heart. The brethren going before you are inner stations of consciousness, trust, unity, and open-handedness, whose arrival signals the gift's outer appearance. The bounty he speaks of is the inner readiness you carry before you release any outward aid; it is the sense that abundance is your natural condition. When you assent to giving in advance, you strip generosity of fear and remove covetousness as a motive, because you are aligning with the I AM that presides in you as unlimited supply. In this light, prearrangement becomes a spiritual law: you imagine the act of giving first, and then the funds or resources appear to match the scene you have already assumed. Thus, the outward act follows the inward certainty that you are abundance and that your gift blesses both giver and receiver. Practice is to enter the feeling that your bounty is ready now, and to dwell there until it radiates into your daily decisions.