Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

Ezekiel 43:11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

All of the above scriptures are true. I have included Ezekiel 43:11 for one simple reason and that is personal shame for the things we have done.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Once we are born again and the Holy Spirit is given to instruct us in all righteousness and to enact the will of God the Father in our lives, this life we live by faith in Christ is His life and we are His.

John 14:2-3 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

He will not come for us until He has prepared us, His temple, our body.

Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Remember this please, a bride is not a wife until the wedding. Our union is not yet complete.

Strong’s Number G2624

 Reconciliation:

properly denotes “to change, exchange” (especially of money); hence, of persons, “to change from enmity to friendship, to reconcile.” With regard to the relationship between God and man, the use of this and connected words shows that primarily “reconciliation” is what God accomplishes, exercising His grace towards sinful man on the ground of the death of Christ in propitiatory sacrifice under the judgment due to sin, 2Cr 5:19, where both the verb and the noun are used (cp. No. 2, in Col 1:21). By reason of this men in their sinful condition and alienation from God are invited to be “reconciled” to Him; that is to say, to change their attitude, and accept the provision God had made, whereby their sins can be remitted and they themselves be justified in His sight in Christ.

God is a just God and in order for God to justify putting aside our sins on judgment day, He alone decides what justifies setting aside the death penalty and setting us free.

Note closely the issue of an exchange (of money) an exchange of one life for another.

Exodus 21:30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.

Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Dead men cannot sin. So consider ourselves dead to sin by the death of our Lord. At the same time consider ourselves alive in Christ because of His resurrection.

So, do we live to sin or live to love?

If we are still at odds with the whole issue and seem confused, don’t feel bad, wiser men than us have written about it. Paul wrote a whole chapter about this very thing in Romans 7.

“For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”

“Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”

Once again, what is that new commandment again? Ah yes, to love one another.