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Originally Posted by py3ak  Without the 10th Commandment, legalists and formalists could have argued with better color that their external obedience was real obedience. The 10th Commandment, as shown in the case of Paul in Romans 7 (which Bruce mentioned above) declared with ineluctable clarity that God's law is spiritual, that true obedience must come from the heart, that thoughts and feelings are as sinful as actions. |
Luther notes in his larger catechism that "This last commandment therefore is given not for rogues in the eyes of the world, but just for the most pious, who wish to be praised and be called honest and upright people, since they have not offended against the former commandments...”