Neville Goddard on Romans 6:12-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:12-23

Biblical Context

Paul urges that sin not reign in the body, and believers yield themselves to God, becoming servants of righteousness. The outcome is holiness and eternal life, not death.

Neville's Inner Vision

Like a living scripture of consciousness, Romans 6:12–23 invites you to stop letting the belief in separation reign in your body and to yield your life to the I AM within. Sin here is not a distant law but a pattern of thought you have believed; grace is the recognition that you are already alive to God, not under the old rules but under the gift of awareness. When you consent to the heart’s form of doctrine, you awaken as a servant of righteousness, and the body follows the state you acknowledge. The command not to yield your members to unrighteousness becomes a practical discipline: choose what your attention and your actions serve, and see that your true self is freedom from sin, fruit unto holiness, and eternal life. You are the master of the inner kingdom by exercising the I AM now: you are not under the letter of the law but under its spirit, which is consciousness awakening to its own power to create. In this light, every choice becomes a surrender to the inner God.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: For 5 minutes, assume the feeling of being alive from the dead and already in right relationship with God; act as if you are yielding every action to righteousness, and let that inner state color your next task.