As pertains the OP, it's based on the presupposition of a modern idea of love. Before we can even answer the question, love has to be defined.
To define love is to literally define God.
1 John 4 King James Version (KJV)
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Love is the only definition of God in the KJV N.T.
It is not a lettered/intellectual/definition thing. It is not a going back to a Greek/English dictionary thing. It is an experiential thing. God/Love is a Spirit.
John: 4 King James Version (KJV)
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Have you ever actually loved? if yes, then you know God. Then you have experienced the essential fabric of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Then you would know why it is not possible to love and also esteem and uphold the law of sin and death. Then you will know why one of these had to go. Then you would know why:
Romans: 8 KJV N.T.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Acts: 13
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
If you still discern the slightest 'wisdom' in the law of sin and death, know for sure that you have never loved and you do not know God. At best you simply know about Love/God. You have not actually experienced Love/God. However, most probably you mistaken some other thing to be Love/God.
Then you still fear and cannot and do not love freely and unconditionally. In any motivation, the presence of fear is the absence of Love/God.
1 John: 8 KJV N.T.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
The ten commandments and Love/God are not compatible. For this reason the ten commandments are done away with for those in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Romans: 8 KJV N.T.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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