When a human is born from above, God puts His Holy Spirit life in them. They are then and forever more a member of His family with the Righteousness of Christ imparted to them by adoption. If a person is not born from above, they will strive to obtain the Life of God in them and never achieve it that way. There is only one Way, by faith and no works will ever be good enough in your flesh to merit even in the tiniest portion what ONLY God has and ONLY GOD can place in you. We see the evidence of that at Pentecost and in the House of Cornelius, where none of the Catholic means to salvation were necessary to have God’s Life come into those listening who believed the message that Jesus is the ONLY means by which we must be saved.
If someone has faith yet is still attached to sin, is he saved? Is the unrepentant adulterer who has faith saved? Is the unrepentant murderer who has faith saved?