Neville Goddard on Romans 16:17-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 16 in context

Scripture Focus

17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Romans 16:17-18

Biblical Context

Paul urges believers to notice those who cause divisions against the taught doctrine and to avoid them. Such teachers serve their own appetites and deceive the simple.

Neville's Inner Vision

Romans 16:17–18 speaks to the inner discipline of the mind. The 'mark them' is not a call to condemn others but to wake up to the mental currents that would divide your sense of God from life. The divisions you encounter arise from a doctrine that has not been yielded to your inner I AM; it is a voice that serves the ego’s appetite, not the Lord Jesus Christ within. By 'good words and fair speeches' they attempt to sway the hearts of the simple, the minds not yet anchored in consistent awareness. Your true action is to stop entertaining such voices inside your own consciousness. Assume a state of discernment, the feeling of the truth you learned, and the quiet authority of your I AM. When you dwell there, you heal the split between belief and life, and the external rhetoric loses its grip. The path is not to fight but to return to the one message within: unity, faithfulness, and obedience to the Christ in you. In that state, you naturally avoid the traps of those who would divide, because your inner house is in order.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare, I AM, the sole living presence now; revise every incoming message by choosing unity and feeling that unity as real.