The Inner Covenant Insight
Matthew 19:9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 19 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Divorce and remarriage, except when the first spouse is unfaithful, are described as adultery. The verse also says that the person who marries a divorced person commits adultery.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the verse as a map of your inner state rather than a rule for external life. The word 'divorce' represents a decided separation within your consciousness, while 'fornication' signals the belief that you are incomplete and must seek a new image to feel whole. When you marry another in your inner life, you defend an identity built on lack rather than unity; thus 'adultery' becomes the name for clinging to a felt absence instead of dwelling in the fullness of your I AM. Neville teaches that the law you meet in Scripture is the law of your own mind: change the belief, and the outward scene must reflect the new inner covenant. If you insist on external arrangements to prove wholeness, you perpetuate the sense of separation; if you return to the one Source—the I AM—you discover that true covenant is inner, permanent, and already fulfilled. So, revise now: assume that you are already in the covenant of your own consciousness, and live from that assumption until the world reconfigures to the new reality.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly and revise: 'I am one with the I AM; there is no separation in me.' Feel that unity as a present, living reality and let your relationships reflect that wholeness.
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