Havoc: Scuse me; but, it isn't about how many times the word shows up. It's about what each of those individual references has to say on the topic. Which pretty much obliterates the notion that it's all about love and then we can do whatever we please. You aren't a hippy by chance are you?
If I may interject, it seems to me that the concern expressed by Havoc and DouglasKC is that your emphasis on love rather than obedience has the tenor of antinomianism. Since I'm sure this is not how you would like to be understood, perhaps you would like to clarify your remarks?
I do undestand that the tension is seen between legalism and antinominianism, but the moral order that arises from the love of Jesus Christ is hardly license in any fashion nor is it a rejection of moral order. Moral order finds its meaning int he love of Christ displayed on the Cross and the crosses we bear for love of him. It is ordered, patterned, and beautiful, but it is not cut and dried, it is not a checklist, and it means a very deep attention to the full theological meaning of Love on the Cross and how that is lived in the Body of the Risen Christ. The tension is actually between the cross and the empty tomb and the only thing that makes sense of it is divine Love.