Again, you are confusing "Motive" with "Duty". A loving act can be sinful if the intention was good, at least in the mind of the one doing the act. Likewise, one can outwardly conform to the law of God superficially as did the Pharisees and all who were not of faith. But Scripture teaches that one is to keep God's commandments out of gratitude, love and heart-felt desire. It doesn't take but a cursory reading of the Bible to see that this is a manifest truth taught and practiced throughout.

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Deuteronomy 7:9 (ASV) "Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,"

John 14:15 (ASV) "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments."

John 14:21-24 (ASV) "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me."

John 15:10 (ASV) "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

1 John 5:3 (ASV) "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."

Secondly, you are bifurcating what Jesus taught regarding what is required of all men from what God the Father required of all men, i.e., perfect holiness, aka: complete compliance with the moral law. However, the Lord Christ explicitly said that He only spoke what the Father gave to Him.

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John 8:26 (ASV) "I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world."

John 8:26-28 (ASV) "I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world. They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father. Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things."

John 12:49-50 (ASV) "For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak."

John 14:15 (ASV) "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments."

John 15:10 (ASV) "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."
Now, can you show me that the commandments of Christ are essentially different than the commandments of God His Father? Is Matt 23:37 different than Deut 6:5? Did the Lord Christ deliver a different set of Ten Commandments than what God delivered to Moses on Sinai and which same laws were written on the heart of every man since Adam? Loving obedience to the law of God mixed with true saving faith is to show forth good works.

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