James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
James wrote these words to try and correct the mistakes the Jews had written into the laws they upheld. They had turned this basic law on its head and tried to make things positive in their own eyes.
Their law went along the lines of “he who observed any principal command was as good as he who observed all the commands.”
God says we are guilty if we leave out any or break any; which may sound harsh when viewed against the Jewish law, but there is only one truth!