(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,
If you love me you will keep my commands,
If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.
To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.
This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.
I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,
You are my friends — if you do what I command you;
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;
So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.
They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.