Neville Goddard on Galatians 5:19-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21

Biblical Context

The passage catalogs acts of the flesh and warns they block inheriting the kingdom; these outward sins mirror inner dispositions of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the 'works of the flesh' are not outside trespasses but inner states of consciousness you have accepted as real. Adultery, envy, wrath, and strife arise where the I AM has identified with a lack of wholeness or with a story that you must fear separation. The kingdom of God, far from a distant place, is the established order of the I AM within you—the awareness through which you imagine and thus realize. When you dwell in jealousy or hatred, you are literally living as a future that your imagination has agreed to entertain; you cannot inherit the kingdom while you inhabit those fearful states. The text is a reminder to revise: arrest the identification with those motions and reoccupy the throne of your consciousness. You are not bound to those acts; you have the power to turn to the feeling of wholesomeness, purity, and unity, and to let that feeling govern your sensory world. The moment you assume the stance, you awaken the kingdom in you here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: identify one present impulse (e.g., envy). Close your eyes, assume the opposite state—abundant love or peaceful trust—and feel it as your current reality, as if it already is so. Do this for a few minutes, repeating 'I AM' as the presence that governs.