Neville Goddard on Colossians 3:18-25 - 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.

22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

25But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Colossians 3:18-25

Biblical Context

Paul lays out duties for family and work—wives, husbands, children, parents, servants, and masters—urging heartfelt, sincere action as unto the Lord and warning that consequences follow wrongdoings. The outer forms point to inner states of consciousness and to alignment with the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Colossians 3:18-25 the roles named are not external commands but inner dispositions of consciousness. Wives, husbands, children, fathers, servants, masters—these labels stand for states you cultivate in the I AM. When you submit, love, obey, refrain from provoking, and do all your work heartily, you are practicing alignment with the Lord within you. Eye-service and appearances melt when you affirm the one law: I am the Lord of this life, and all action flows from that awareness. If you revise the scene in your imagination, you discover you are not under others but under God in you, freely choosing harmony over discord. The reward is the inheritance of the Lord Christ—the steady sense of being governed by a single mind that sees all as God’s expressions. There is no favoritism in this inner order; every situation reveals your current state of consciousness. By holding to this inner posture, you transform the outer relationships into a living altar where every duty becomes worship. You become the master of your inner kingdom, and your world follows accordingly.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly for a moment and revise: I am the Lord in this house; I do all things heartily unto the Lord. See each person as an expression of the same I AM and act from that certainty.