Neville Goddard on Romans 7:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 7 in context

Scripture Focus

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Romans 7:7-8

Biblical Context

Paul asks whether the law is sin and answers no; the commandment reveals what sin is by awakening desire, which sin uses to move in us. Without the law, sin seems dead, but the moment the commandment speaks, inner impulses come to life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Romans 7:7-8 tells us the law does not create sin, but it makes sin visible by stirring desire. In this inner drama, you are not fighting an enemy outside you; you are awakening to a state you have already imagined. The 'I' that listens to the commandment is the I AM—awareness that can revise any impression. When you say to yourself, 'The law is only my inner standard, and it exists to clarify my desires,' sin loses its weapon: it has no substance unless you give it power by imagining a forbidden image. As you dwell in the aware presence that simply watches thought, the urge to covet or resist loses its grip, because you are not the craving but the witness who can re-sculpt it. The moment you realize the commandment is a stimulus, you can reinterpret it: it points to a latent state already real in imagination. Your task is not to condemn, but to revise and feel the end as already present. Then the inner movement of 'sin' is seen for what it is—an impression in awareness, dissolving when you choose to identify with your higher self.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, declare 'The law is my inner standard; I am the I AM that commands it.' Then revise by imagining the end as already present and feeling it real.