With you on this.
I suppose it's how it's explained.
For me this is the way I look at it.
God gave the law of Moses, given before they entered the promised land. The laws given for me are the divine nature of God.
So God is saying this how I expect you to be, which is the opposite of those in the land I will give you. So a standard has been set and that's Gods standard.
Jesus summed up the whole 10 with
Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no denying that Jesus commands this.
its intersting, if you notice what is the crux on the above? To me it is LOVE.
We love God, why? Because he first loved us.
To me in a sense it's like God is saying "I love you, now you know it, now I want you to spread the love"
I have led a few to Christ who seem to think that they are nice people and do good, things like put money in a charity box, don't do this or that, then they say, surely God will forgive me (if there is one) when I meet him.
When I dig deeper they have come to the realisation "Wow I have nothing to offer and what I thought I had is useless"
But now they have a knowledge of who God really is, the attitude has changed. It's "Wow God loves me as I am, has forgiven me, Jesus died for me"
It goes from being "how can you judge me when I do good things and I deserve to be in heaven to wow I want to be like you, not to impress you but because you impress me and I love you"
I still think we do not have to good works to be saved, wrong reasoning with wrong results.
We do works for the right reasons and that to me is summed in the verses given above. All out of love.