Neville Goddard on Hebrews 13:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hebrews 13 in context

Scripture Focus

17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

18Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

19But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Hebrews 13:17-19

Biblical Context

The passage urges respecting those who oversee you and to pray for them while living honestly so as to keep joy in relationships rather than grief.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Hebrews 13:17-19, the 'rule over you' becomes the inner governance of your own awareness—the I AM watching over the soul. When you willingly submit to that inner rule, joy flows because you align with the mental law that sustains life; resistance stiffens experience and invites grief. The appeal to pray for the author is really a call to petition your higher state, to steady the mind in honesty and a clean conscience. Your conscience is the mirror of alignment with truth, not a harsh judge; its clarity signals trust that you are living rightly. To be restored sooner means the inner order is already established within you, and each moment of alignment compresses the distance between current experience and its peaceful manifestation. Practice, now, the assumption that you are under benevolent inner governance that watches over you with joy, and that your honesty is securely housed in that watch.

Practice This Now

Place yourself under the inner governor and feel it watching over you with joy. Assume you are already living honestly and let that state restore you to harmony.