Your conflating, with no support. The translated word "commandment" does immediately envoke the 10 (even if you really really want it to) There needs to be more support than this. Support like what? Support like how 1 Cor 7:19, Gal 5:6 and Gal 6:15 shows "commandments" (at least as it applies to that context) is not a direct reference to the 10 but instead NT values consistent with new creation (as Gal 5:6 and 6:15 shows).Something that is interchangeable means it works backwards and forwards- not I pick the definition I seem to agree with and voids out the other.
For example, God said the seventh day and the Sabbath day are interchangeable.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
It keeps all things intact, not destroys which one we don't agree with. Its actually explains what one does seem to agree with, what it really means, the Bible's definition, not ours.
You are taking two things from Galatians and applying to Corinthians. That's fine, but lets keeps in mind Jesus who is God kept intact the definition of God's commandments quoting from the same unit of Ten. Mat 15:3-14 Mark7:7-13 Paul is not above Jesus to change a jot or tittle that Jesus said He would not.
But lets see if Paul is working in harmony or against what God of the universe defined.
Gal 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Does faith void the law and redefine it., Not according to Paul's plain words.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
Does love void the law?
Not according to Jesus.
John 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. Same thing He said in the Ten Commandments Exo20:6
Gal 6:15
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.
Is becoming a new creation mean leaving your old life of sin and walking in Christ or does it mean we are worshipping others gods, and stealing from our neighbor and breaking God's commandments which is sin 1 John3:4
Lets see what Paul says
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
So someone who has faith though love and walks in newness of life is keeping God's commandments- which is just that commandments, means its not a suggestion. His version because He is God and we are not. Its what love and faith is all about, putting what God said above our own wants, will and desires because we love Him and He loves us and this faith is what makes us a new creation in Christ and reconciles us back to God Rev22:14
Gal 5:6 and Gal 6:15 speak of the exact same thing as 1 Cor 7:19, they are not different things or in addition to, they are exactly the same thing. They must all agree. Gal 5:6 and Gal 6:15 (and their contexts) can help to unpack the meaning of commandments in 1 Cor 7:19.
How it is used in 2 John may be different but regardless what you point to, support is still needed and we can't just say it is something without showing that connection. 100 verses that say "commandments" is not support, it just exposes the lack of support going back to the ten 100 times.
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