Your response here...
No one said that they were justified by the law did they? If no one has said we are justified by the law then what is your argument here?
Absolutely all those scriptures posted to you are about love to God and our neighbor but my question was not what are these scriptures about but what do they mean. That is how is love expressed?
Here it may help if we post the scriptures and answer my own questions through the scriptures...
LOVE is
EXPRESSED through God's ETERNAL LAW (10 Commandments) as JESUS says;
MATTHEW 22:36-40 [36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37], Jesus said to him, You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. [38], This is the first and great commandment. [39], And the second is like to it, You shall
love your neighbour as yourself. [40],
ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
ROMANS 13:8-10 [8], Owe no man anything, but to LOVE ONE ANOTHER:
for HE THAT LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. [9],
FOR THIS, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT LIE, THOU SHALT NOT COVET; and IF THERE SHALL BE ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, it is briefly
SUMMED UP in this saying, namely, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.
[10], Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore
LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
and again;
JAMES 2:8-12 [8] If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture,
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF [Sums up our duty of love in the 10 Commandments Romans 13:9] , you do well: [9], But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convicted of the law as transgressors. [10],
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. [11],
FOR HE THAT SAID, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, SAID ALSO, DO NOT KILL. NOW IF YOU COMMIT NO ADULTERY, YET YOU KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. [12], So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
OBEDIENCE to God's ETERNAL LAW (10 Commandments) is the fruit of faith and it is
through faith dear that works by a new heart to LOVE that RIGHTEOUSNESS and LOVE is expressed to God and our fellow man.
PSALMS 119:172 [172] My tongue shall speak of your word: for
ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
ROMANS 3:31, Do we then make void the law through faith
? GOD FORBID: YES, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
and is why JESUS says;
MATTHEW 22:36-40 [36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37], Jesus said to him, You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. [38], This is the first and great commandment. [39], And the second is like to it, You shall
love your neighbour as yourself. [40],
ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
and why JOHN says;
2 JOHN 1:6 AND THIS IS LOVE THAT WE WALK AFTER HIS COMMANDMENTS. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
and again here;
1 JOHN 5:2-3 [2], BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE LOVE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, WHEN WE LOVE GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS [3],
FOR THE IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: and his commandments are not grievous.
and is why it is written;
1 JOHN 2:3-4 [3], And
HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. [4],
HE THAT SAYS I KNOW HIM AND DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM.
1 JOHN 3:6 WHOSOEVER ABIDES IN HIM SINS NOT: WHOSOEVER SINS HAS NOT SEEN HIM OR KNOWS HIM
1 JOHN 3:9 [9],
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 JOHN 5:18 [18] We know that
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINS NOT; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
ROMANS 2:12-13 [12], For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; [13], FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST BEFORE GOD BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW SHALL BE JUSTIFIED.
and why JESUS says;
Amen!
JOHN 14:15 [15]
IF YOU LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS
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Now if LOVE is the very expression of OBEDIENCE to God's LAW *
ROMANS 13:8-10 and God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) are the very definition of what RIGHTEOUSNESS is *
PSALMS 119:172, and to break any one of God's 10 commandments is SIN *
JAMES 2:10-11. How can you LOVE GOD and your NEIGHBOR as yourself, if we have no LOVE and break God's Commandments which ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS HANG *
MATTHEW 22:36-40?
Unless we are BORN AGAIN to LOVE from the INSIDE OUT we are only like dead mans bones and all we can do without JESUS is SIN *
1 JOHN 3:4.
When we LOVE GOD and our NEIGHBOR it is expressed through our actions.
If we LOVE our neighbor...
* We will honor our parents,
* We will not kill them
* We will not commit adultery with thier spouse
* We will not steal from them
* We will not lie to them
* We will not covet what they own.
If we LOVE our God...
* We will not have other Gods
* We will not make idols and worship them
* We will not take his name [follow] him in vain
* We will remember his Sabbath and keep it holy.
Because JESUS says...
ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS [OF LOVE] HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS *Matthew 22:35-40.
Can you see dear friend that Love is expressed by faith through obedience to God's law (10 commandments) it is not separate from Gods' law but is how love is expressed in a new heart that has been freed from sin through God's forgiveness to love and follow him who has called us in love to love another. We do not keep God's law to be saved but because we are saved and love JESUS *John 14:15; John 15:10.
May God bless you as you seek him through his Word.