Inner Gift Over Judgment
Romans 5:16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Romans 5:16 contrasts a judgment that comes from one sin with a gift that justifies by many offenses. The gift is not earned by counting sins but flows from your true awareness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Romans 5:16 speaks not of two different gods handing out rewards, but of two states of your own consciousness. The 'one' who sinned points to a single old self—an old story you have repeated until it seems real. The 'free gift' is the present expansion of awareness, the blessing that arrives when you stop counting offenses and affirm the truth of your innocence as I AM. In this inner drama, justification is not a verdict from without but a shift in your sense of being. When you awaken to the fact that the I AM is your only reality, the judgment becomes mere memory and the gift becomes your lived state: you are now in harmony with your own divine nature, not condemned by past acts but liberated by present awareness. The many offenses you imagine drop away as you align with one immutable reality: you are consciousness expressing as life, and the gift is the embodiment of that consciousness.
Practice This Now
Assume you are already justified now; close your eyes, feel the I AM as your real self, and repeat, 'I am the righteousness of God,' until guilt dissolves into peace.
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