Neville Goddard on Titus 1:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Titus 1 in context

Scripture Focus

6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Titus 1:6-9

Biblical Context

Titus 1:6-9 presents outward qualifications for elders and bishops, interwoven with inner discipline: blamelessness, fidelity, temperance, and holding fast to the faithful word that enables exhortation. It shows leadership begins as an inner state that naturally expresses itself in conduct.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul’s list is not a command for external form alone; it reveals the inner condition that governs all action. Blamelessness is the steadfast I AM, unmoved by riotous thoughts. The husband of one wife and faithful children symbolize the undivided attention and the stable outcomes born of a single, constant inner state. The bishop, as steward of God, is the mindset that governs stewardship of every impression—refusing selfwill, anger, wine, or strife because you know you stand in a divine authority. The virtues listed—hospitality, love of what is good, sobriety, justice, holiness, temperance—arise as natural responses of a mind that has chosen alignment with the faithful word. Holding fast the word as you have been taught means living from certainty that this inner word is true, so you can exhort and persuade the doubts within. In this light, your outward circumstances reflect your inward covenant, a life where the inner state leads and the world follows.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and assume the inner image of a blameless steward, holding fast to the faithful word. Then revise any discord by declaring I AM the I AM, and my world reflects this truth, feeling it as already real.