Neville Goddard on Colossians 3:18-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Colossians 3 in context

Scripture Focus

18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Colossians 3:18-21

Biblical Context

Wives align with their husbands in the Lord; husbands love without bitterness. Children obey their parents, and fathers avoid provoking their children to anger.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner kingdom, Colossians 3:18-21 reveals a structure of consciousness, not a social checklist. Wives, husbands, children, and fathers correspond to inner faculties whose relations you can harmonize by the I AM you truly are. To 'submit' is to yield to the divine order within, aligning outward events with the inner law. The 'husband' who loves without bitterness is the steady, forgiving thought that refuses to feed conflict. The 'child' obedient to parents is the disciplined impulse following inner guidance, and the 'father' who does not provoke is the protective, patient self that guards the future heart from anger. All is one consciousness choosing harmony; the outer scene will mirror this inner arrangement as you dwell in the feeling of its truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly, breathe into the I AM, and imagine your inner family already in harmony. Persist in the feeling that love, order, and obedience are now real in your mind, and let that state revise any grievance until your daily life reflects it.