Neville Goddard on Romans 7:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 7 in context

Scripture Focus

1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Romans 7:1-2

Biblical Context

Romans 7:1-2 presents the law as a binding state that holds sway while the old self remains. The image of a wife bound to her husband becomes a metaphor for our inner identification with rule and duty.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Romans 7:1-2, the law’s dominion is not a distant decree but a living state of consciousness you take as yours while you identify with the old self. The wife bound to a husband represents your present sense of limitation—habit, fear, duty, and the old covenant of self-imposed rules. When you imagine the husband dead, that old identification loses authority, for you have shifted your center from form to I AM, the unconditioned awareness you are. In the moment you affirm, I am not this law; I am the consciousness that sees through it, you dissolve the decree that kept you bound. Your new inner covenant is not obedience to external rules but the felt certainty that you, as awareness, are free. The change occurs in imagination: revise the story you tell about yourself, feel the liberty already present, and let outward life reflect that inner liberty. The death of the old state makes room for a living marriage to a higher truth—God as I AM, the eternal you.