Neville Goddard on Romans 7:1-4 - 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.

3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Romans 7:1-4

Biblical Context

The law governs a person only while they live by it; death to that legal pattern frees you to marry the risen Christ and bear fruit unto God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Romans 7 reveals that the 'law' is a fixed pattern of thought in the mind—the state of consciousness you inhabit. The husband and wife are the old identities you have clung to; as long as you identify with them, the law rules your life. But by the body of Christ you are dead to that law and united with another, the risen Christ within. This is an inner marriage, not a change of external rules; with this inner union, the letter loses its binding power and you bear fruit unto God as your life flows from the I AM. When you imagine yourself already resurrected, your attention is drawn away from striving to obey toward living from the living Self. The fruit you desire is the natural expression of that unity, not a tense performance. Accept that the old dominion is dissolved by the awareness of your true, awakened I, and walk forward in quiet confidence.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare I am dead to the old law and alive unto the risen Christ within me, and visualize a ring of light uniting you to the Divine; then choose a small movement this day that expresses that union.