The greater our love for God, the greater our desire for holiness. Love is far stricter and more demanding than law, for love always goes farther than duty. Love for God will cause someone to draw much closer to God than legalism will, both in attitudes and in disciplined living. Love rejects everything that is not clearly compatible with godliness, or that is not conducive to Christianity, even though no rules have specifically labeled these things as sin. In this way, the principle of love leads to greater holiness than does the law of Moses or a codification of rules.
Love dominates all actions and all relationships.
Since holiness is God's very nature, when we receive the Holy Spirit of God we receive a holy nature. As long as we let the Spirit lead us we will not sin. Holiness is not an external law but an integral part of the new nature. In living for God, we do not merely follow an outward list of rules, but we follow the nature of the Holy Spirit within us. We live holy because that is what the new man is and wants to be.