Neville Goddard on Romans 3:9-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 3 in context

Scripture Focus

9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17And the way of peace have they not known:

18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:9-20

Biblical Context

Romans 3:9-20 declares that all humanity stands under sin; no one is righteous by works, and the law reveals this condition.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the apostle's catalog of human failure becomes a mirror of your inner life. In Neville's terms, under sin is not a line in a record but a state of consciousness in which you believe you are separate from the I AM. The law states there is none righteous; the emptiness you feel arises when you identify with lack, fear, and judgment. Yet the entire passage is a call to revise — an invitation to awaken from the false self by the realization that the I AM is the sole reality, the ground of your being. When you stop the constant self accusation and still the mind, you stop the mouth which speaks in cursing and bitterness. As you imagine yourself as one with divine law, the perception of peace, justice, and healing, your external world recalibrates to reflect your inner state. You are not measured by deeds, but by awareness itself; by dwelling in the inward I AM, you awaken to a new sense of justification: the world becomes aligned with your true nature.