If ye love me, keep my commandments.
If ye love me, keep my commandments. Christ's commandments are neither substituted in place of God's commandments in the moral law, nor are they something to be performed over and above that law. But they are that very law of God, laid on His disciples by the Lord Jesus, in the exercise of His proper authority, and to be obeyed as their proper service to Himself as their Lord and Master-from new motives and to new ends; for we "not without law to God, but under the law to Christ" (1 Corinthians 9:21). This demand, on the principles of the two foregoing verses, is intelligible: on any other principles, it were monstrous.