Even One Offense Means Guilt

Now possibly you find, by careful examination, that you are not guilty on every count of these Ten Words. But remember what the Holy Spirit has told us in James 2:8-11: "If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.”
It has often been remarked that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Suppose you were suspended over a precipice by a chain of ten links. How many would need to snap before you would drop into the abyss below? And so, if you are guilty of the violation of one of the commandments, you are condemned by the law and therefore under its curse.
The law of God was never given to save men. It was given to magnify sin, to make it exceedingly sinful, to give it the specific character of transgression. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no man be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom. 3:20). But, blessed be God, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. 3:13). He became man, and was born under the law. He obeyed that law perfectly, and was not subject to its penalty. But He went to the cross and endured its curse for us, that we who trust Him might be forever free from its just condemnation. "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3:18). "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8:1).
“Free from the law, oh, happy condition,
Jesus bath bled, and there is remission;
Curs'd by the law and bruised by the fall,
Christ bath redeemed us once for all.”