Alex,<br><br>Appealing to 1Cor. 13:4-7 doesn't diminish nor disprove the fact that "Love" is the motive of which a person lives before God and treats mankind. It tells us "WHY" but not "WHAT" is to be done. For example, a person may be really exciting about going on a trip to some exotic destination. But if there is no map nor directions as to how to get there, the excitement will hardly suffice in itself. We are instructed to live and be "holy" (1Pet 1:15, 16) and "perfect" (Matt 5:48). What is it to be holy? and What defines perfect? In the Corinthian passage, Paul is clearly teaching how "Love" is expressed by summarizing the moral law in it's "spiritual" application as did the Lord Christ:<blockquote>Matthew 22:36-40 (ASV) "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets."</blockquote>Aside from the Sabbath, the Fourth Commandment, which is the favorite target of all who have no desire to submit to it, which of the other Nine Commandments of the Decalogue are no longer binding upon a Christian? Is there anything in those other Nine which a Christian is free to do?<br><br>In His Grace,

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