(Ecclesiastes 12:13) Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
How can a man fear what he does not believe in? How can a man keep words that he does not know and has no desire to learn? Yet this is the whole duty man was created for. Sin is a killer! It has killed mans desire and ability to fear God or believe and keep His word. Our only hope is regeneration. A work of God in our souls that frees us from the bondage of sin.
(Titus 3:5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;