"Jesus’ point in [Matthew] 5:19 is the same as that of other Bible teachers in his day: one cannot pick and choose among the commandments but must obey them all. As some teachers put it, one should be as 'careful with regard to a light commandment as . . . with a heavy one. . . .' . . . God does not allow his servants to embrace his prohibition against murder while rejecting his teaching about adultery or fornication."Craig S. Keener, A commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), 179. Or anything lighter, for example "the 'least' commandment about the bird's nest (Dt 22:6-7)"?
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