I have plucked one verse out of context, huh? Let's see, I really wonder if you know the word.
Matthew 19:17
And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is
only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandmentsand abide in His love.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but
what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.
1 John 2:3
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1 John 2:4
The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
1 John 3:24
The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
Revelation 12:17
So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
What have you been reading? Do you see all these instances of 'keeping His commandments'? It's not some isolated passage in Matthew 19:17. After reading all these passages, do you think we should keep His commandments? Tell me why we shouldn't keep them.
Here is why we should keep them -
1 we enter life by keeping them
2 we love Him by keeping them
3 Jesus will manifest Himself by keeping them
4 we abide in His love by keeping them
5 what matters is keeping them
6 we come to know Him by keeping them
7 we are a liar by not keeping them
8 we receive what we ask by keeping them
9 we abide in Him by keeping them
10 His commandments are not burdensome (so no excuse about "can't keep them")
11 we persevere by keeping them
Now redleghunter, prove to me why we shouldn't keep them.