All The Law, All The Time

The basic principle you’ve got to understand is this: to be righteous by keeping law, you’ve got to keep the whole law all the time.

And Paul resumes this theme in the New Testament, in the Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 3, verse 10:

“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written”—and now he’s quoting the verse we looked at, but he amplifies it a little bit—“‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.’”

So, if you want to receive the blessing and avoid the curse, you have to continue in all things, all the time, to do them. Otherwise, the law is of no benefit to you from the point of view of righteousness.