James 2:10-11

If you fail to keep the command to love your neighbor as yourself, you are now a law transgressor. This may seem rash, having broken one tiny law deeming the verdict of a transgressor of the whole law. To back this up, James explains that keeping the command to not commit adultery, but failing to keep the command to not murder still makes you a transgressor of the law. This makes me think of our silly ideas that little things don't matter. For example, white lies or tiny fibs, which people think don't mean anything. Sometimes people think that if you can get away with something tiny that doesn't hurt anyone, it's okay to do. I'll admit that this deception creeps into my thinking as well. However, failing in one area of the law means becoming a transgressor of the whole law. Don't dismiss your sins as an insignificant pebble that doesn't amount to sin at all. You may think that it rounds back down to zero, but perhaps you have misjudged the value or cost of sin, no matter how little it may seem.