To me God's eternal laws are to love God with all your heart, mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself. Those are the highest level commandments. The Ten Commandments are based on them, but are the lowest level commandments. They do not cover hate, but go all the way to the bottom level of murder, etc. Jesus, on the other hand, put new life in God's commandments and brought them up to a saving level.
Matthew 5: “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
The lowest level commandments were to only guard us until Christ. People love the Ten Commandments because they are the easiest to follow.
Galatians 3:
19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 3:
26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
"Putting on Christ" is the result of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit we do not belong to Christ. The Spirit is the seed in us that causes us to become sinless.
1 John 3:9
9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
From the whole of scripture we find that John is speaking of "willful" sin. A Christian does not commit willful sin. These are sins unto death. But there are other sins that a Christian does that are not unto death and are automatically cleansed by the blood of Jesus, thus keeping us sinless in the eyes of God. We are still able to commit them, even though it is not God's will, while walking in the Spirit. 1 John 1:7 shows us this. Even though they are not known to us for us to repent and confess them, our advocate takes care of them. And while the fruit of the Spirit grows to maturity, these sins grow less and less frequent as we mature to perfection.
1 John 4:12
If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.