Hello Kermos, some comments for your consideration below.
The point of the "Do not commit adultery" post gets summed up in Romans 13:8-10, quoted here:
8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOUSHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Indeed this was posted to you with supporting scriptures to show that you cannot have LOVE without GOD'S ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) like your trying to promote. God's WORD does not teach lawlessness.
You cannot separate God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) from LOVE because OBEDIENCE to GOD's LAW through FAITH is how God's LOVE is expressed.
ROMANS 13:8-10
8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for
HE WHO HAS LOVED HIS NEIGHBOR HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. 9 For this, "
YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it
IS SUMMED UP IN THE SAYING, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Love your neighbor as your self is from LEVITICUS 19:18 it is summing up the commandment that are to do with our duty of LOVE for our fellow man *ROMANS 13:8-10
The practical application here can be seen in these examples.
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORE AS YOURSELF (
Leviticus 19:18)
* If you love your neighbor will you dishonor your parents? (
Exodus 20:12)
* If you love your neighbor will you kill him? (
Exodus 20:13)
* If you love your neighbor will you commit adultery with their spouse? (
Exodus 20:14)
* If you love your neighbor will you steal from them? (
Exodus 20:15)
* If you love your neighbor will you lie to them? (
Exodus 20:16)
* If you love your neighbor will you covet or be jealous of them? (
Exodus 20:17).
LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART MIND AND SOUL (
Deuteronomy 6:5)
* If you love God will you have other gods before him? (
Exodus 20:3)
* If you love God will you make yourself idols and worship them? (
Exodus 20:4-5)
* If you love God will you take his name in vain (
Exodus 20:7)
* If you love God will you forget his Sabbath memorial of creation? (
Exodus 20:8-11)
OBEDIENCE to God's LAW is not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of God's work in us as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW his WORD. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *
JAMES 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *
MATTHEW 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50. We are saved by GRACE through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God *
EPHESIANS 2:8. We are all sick with sin and need a Physician *
MATTHEW 9:12-13 and need to be BORN AGAIN and changed from the INSIDE OUT.
What does Jesus say when he talks about the commandments and love? Jesus is quoting from Old testament scriptures of
Deuteronomy 6:5 and
Leviticus 19:18.
in MATTHEW let's have a look...
MATTHEW 22:36-40
[36], Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37], Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38], This is the first and great commandment.
[39], And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
[40],
ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
JESUS does not separate LOVE to GOD and man from God's 10 commandments. He says on these two great commandments of LOVE hang all the law and the prophets. Let's get clearer...
MATTHEW 19:16-21
[16], And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
[17], And he said unto him, Why call thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God:
BUT IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO LIFE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.
[18], He saith unto him, WHICH?
JESUS SAID, THOU SHALT NOT MURDER, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT LIE, HONOR YOU MOTHER AND FATHER AND THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF
[20], The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
[21], Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. <Jesus showed him that he may have fulfilled His duty of love to his neighbor but not to God breaking commandment 1 and 2 loving riches more than God>
Well Jesus makes it very clear that what he is talking about it is the 10 commandments of God's Law.
What about James...
JAMES 2:8-12
[8], If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture,
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF, ye do well:
[9], But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
[10],
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE SHALL BE GUILTY OF ALL.
[11],
FOR HE THAT SAID, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY SAID ALSO DO NOT KILL. NOW IF YOU DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY AND YOU KILL, YOU HAVE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF GOD'S LAW.
[12], So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Well James makes it very clear what he is talking about when he talks about the Royal Law of love. He is talking about the 10 commandments. So Jesus and James both agree that they are talking about God's 10 commandments which also include the 4th commandment which is one of the ten.
What your missing here and not seeing is the NEW COVENANT promise of LOVE written in the heart is expressed through God's LAW not apart from it.
HEBREWS 8:10-12
[10], For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
[11], And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
[12], For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
We need to be BORN again to LOVE brother in order to receive the NEW COVENANT promise walk in God's LAW which is the very expression of what LOVE is. This is why JESUS says...
JOHN 3:3-8
[3], Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[4], Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
[5], Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
[6], That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
NOTE: what PAUL says that ties in nicely with what JESUS is teaching here about why we will not see the kingdom of Heaven if we live in the
flesh (carnal mind; sinful human nature) in
ROMANS 8:13 For if you live after the
flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
[7], Marvel not that I said to you, You must be born again.
[8], The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Now brother the question is why do we need to be Born again in the Spirit? As partly answered in
ROMANS 8:13 above, if we live in the
flesh (carnal mind; sinful human nature) we will die because the wages of sin is death to all those who reject the gift of God's dear son *
ROMANS 6:23.
Let's look at what it means to be Born again and to walk in God's Spirit and the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil...
1 JOHN 3:3-10
[3], And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
[4], Whoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
[5], And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
[6], Whoever abides in him sins not: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.
NOTE: how v6 ties in with
1 JOHN 2:1-4.
[7], Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
[8], He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
NOTE: What is JESUS coming to destroy? The works of the devil which is sin v8
[9], Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
NOTE: If we are BORN of GOD we are not practicing sin. WHY? because God's seed remains in us through faith. This is abiding in him and not sinning (known sin). What is the seed that needs to abide in us so we do not sin? *
LUKE 8:11 Now this is the parable the seed is the Word of God.
[10], In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil (Not sinning and committing sin): whoever does not righteousness is not of God (
PSALMS 119:172 All my commandments are righteousness), neither he that
loves not his brother.
Can you see brother you cannot separate LOVE from God's LAW?
God's 10 commandments are the very expression of what God's LOVE is. We are not saved by keeping God's LAW we are saved by faith in God's WORD as LOVE is expressed through us *
EPHESIANS 2:8. Walking in the Spirit brings the fruit of faith which is LOVE and OBEDIENCE to God's LAW *GALATIONS 5:16;
ROMANS 8:1-4;
ROMANS 3:31;
ROMANS 13:8-10.
RIGHTESOUSNESS comes from LOVE because LOVE is the fulfilling of God's LAW and the very expression of what LOVE is *
ROMANS 13:8-10. He that does not LOVE does not KNOW GOD for GOD IS LOVE *
1 JOHN 4:8. All those who are BORN AGAIN have a NEW HEART TO LOVE and FOLLOW GOD *
1 JOHN 4:7. This is the NEW COVENANT promise *
HEBREWS 8:10-12. Those who are BORN AGAIN do not practice SIN (breaking God's Commandments) *
1 JOHN 3:4-9. This is why JOHN finishes on this subject by saying; For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous *
1 JOHN 5:3 and is why JESUS says IF you LOVE me KEEP my commandments *
JOHN 14:15. UNLESS we are BORN AGAIN under the NEW COVENANT to LOVE we will not enter the KINGDOM of HEAVEN *
JOHN 3:3-7. We need to be changed from the INSIDE OUT.
Hope this helps.