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If you make love the focus of your life, you will by definition be keeping all of the 10 commandments. If you truly love people, you won't be dishonoring them, bearing false witness, stealing from them, killing them, etc.

That's what Jesus meant when He said that love was the most important commandment and that all the old laws were contained in this one: Love God and each other.

The Old Testament idea of holiness was following a long list of rules and commandments. The New Testament idea is "love one another."

Why are you trying to fulfill the laws that have already been fulfilled? The purpose of the Law was to show us the we needed a savior (Gal.3:24) When we receive Jesus, the Law and the requirements of the Law are fulfilled in us...not by us, but in us through Christ. (Romans 8:3-4).

Picture this: Sin and Jesus are polar opposites...right? and you're somewhere in the middle. your goal is to get to Jesus. Now are you going to focus on Jesus and walk straight to him, or are you going to keep your focus on the Sin in you life and keep trying to back away from it and hope that one day you'll run into Jesus?

Christianity is not about behavior modification...it's about having an abiding relationship with our Lord and Savior, whom desires to work in and through our lives, and the only way we can do it is if we give him everything...our good, our bad, and our ugly.

We have been freed from the Law of Sin and Death, and are now under the Law of the Spirit (Romans 8:2)

On the concept of holiness...If you have received Jesus, you have been made Holy (Ephesians 1:4). Again, not by anything that you have done, but by what Christ did for us.

Abide in him and trust in His Promises

Keeping the law relates to complying with it in the letter; doing exactly as a law says. Fulfilling law is related to having love for others, and based on that love, you would refrain from doing anything that would harm another person, physically, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically.

If you refrain from murder, yet hate another, this is "keeping" that law. If you have love for even your enemies, then the law against murder is irrelevant to you. Such a person never needs to be told not to murder, which is an act borne of hatred.

All the law then is "fulfilled" when you have this love for God and fellow man. The letter of the law becomes irrelevant.

As far as holiness is concerned, the believer's life is hidden in Christ; he/she takes on Christ's righteousness and holiness. You cannot produce your own.

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No. do you comprehend that God made a sparkling set for Moses to latest to the people? This seems to point out to the fact that He meant precisely what He wrote in the 1st ones. Exodus 34 the hot Stone pills a million The LORD pronounced to Moses, "Chisel out 2 stone pills like the 1st ones, and that i will write on them the words that have been on the 1st pills, which you broke.

I agree with Jon - all the other commandments flow out of the commandments to love the Lord with all your heart and your neighbour as yourself. I once heard an interesting explanation of the 10 Commandments - I believe it to be true: When you accept Jesus as your Saviour the "Thou shalt not" commandments become "you will not" heart conditions - when you love God, you won't have any other gods, when you love your parents you won't dishonour them", when you love your neighbour you won't covet -- and so on.