Rooted Speech, Fruit of Righteousness
Proverbs 12:12-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 12 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage contrasts the righteous, whose inner roots bear fruit, with the wicked snared by their own words. It links right speech and right action to lasting recompense.
Neville's Inner Vision
All three verses speak to one thing: your life is the outward map of your inner state. The 'wicked' who crave the net of evil are simply the picture of a mind split by fear and lack; when you forget you are the I AM, you become entangled in the shadows of your own thoughts. The 'root of the righteous' is your persistent inner conviction—an assumed state in which you already possess the good you seek. When you hold that root, fruit appears not by struggle but by letting your imagination align with your desired reality. The 'transgression of lips' is the old talk of limitation; the just come out of trouble by speaking from the new state as if it is already true. The line about recompense follows: your hands and deeds reveal the inner knowing you cherish, and life pays back in kind. So dwell in the end you desire, feel its truth now, and let your speech and actions spring from that inner state, and you will see the world rearrange to its likeness.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and revise a current worry into a single affirming scene: 'I am the root that bears fruit; my words now bring good.' Feel this as real, then carry the sense into your next moment and day.
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