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147* duct in this world, having no need of mixing it with other laws. Neither God nor Christ require of man anything but to do right. Therefore Christ who is both true God and true man, in whom is fulness and perfection requires nothing of man but love, and the means to attain to it. And the means are powerfully carried by the law of Christ who taught man in the most masterful fashion how to please God in everything he does And speaking of the perfection of his instruction, man is not only taught fully what to do; Christ's law will enable him to know even those things which would deviate him from true goodness. For no sin can be committed except when we ask those things which Christ condemned, or when we run away from that which he took upon himself to bear. (And we can see this) because his whole life on earth as man is an example and a lesson for (our own) behavior Clearly, he taught most powerfully and most fully how to avoid injustice and do good. No law can be more perfect than the law of Christ.

Therefore a faithful Christian who realizes the powerful strength and perfection of the law of God cannot become Micah 6:8.

Eph. 1:22–23.