When Jesus gave the disciples (and all of us) a new commandment, it wasn’t meant to be ADDED on top of all the laws and commandments of the Old Covenant. “As I have loved you, so you must love one another” is the one new commandment of the New Covenant. And the one new commandment is meant to REPLACE all the laws and commandments of the Old Covenant. Why? Because if we truly love others as Jesus loved us, we fulfiull all the law and all the old commandments – with no loopholes, no exceptions, no fine print. It’s LOVE that motivates us as Jesus Followers, not laws.