Neville Goddard on Romans 7:1-6 - 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.

5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 7:1-6

Biblical Context

Romans 7:1-6 shows that the law has dominion over a person as long as they live. Through the body of Christ, believers are dead to the law and freed to be joined to the risen one, so we may bear fruit unto God in a new spirit.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the law not as an external rule, but as a state of consciousness that has held you in its grip while you identified with the old self. The body of Christ represents a higher alignment—an inner marriage to the risen consciousness—so that you are dead to the old law and free to be joined to life. When you accept this inner reality, the old motions of sin governed by the law lose their power, and you begin to offer fruit in a new way, not by doings under constraint, but by being fully alive in Spirit. The transition from the letter to the Spirit is a shift of imagination: you do not reform the old man; you recognize you are already one with the creator within you. In this inner union, deliverance is not a future event but a present perception, and service becomes a natural expression of your true nature. Your imagination is the vessel in which God acts; to change what you experience, simply revise your sense of self to the risen Christ within, and observe the outward life respond in alignment with grace.

Practice This Now

Assume you are dead to the old law and alive to the Spirit. In a moment of quiet, imagine yourself joined to the risen Christ and feel the fruit of that union—peace, love, and purposeful service—flowing into your daily life.