As Wmfights noted, this is where we part company.
Men are "made righteous" by only ONE THING -- by the perfect, predestined, merciful and miraculous death and resurrection of Jesus Christ who paid in full one time for all the sins of God's elect.
" [we]"...are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood... He did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus." -- Romans 3:25,26
And how do we know that Christ paid for our sins? By our faith. If we believe, we have been redeemed. And that is because the only way a fallen creature can have faith and do good works is by the free gift of God's grace alone.
Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." -- Ephesians 2:8-10"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
If our fruit is good, we have been born from a good tree.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." -- Matthew 7:17-18"Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
And who makes one man fruitful and another man not?
"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" -- 1 Corinthians 4:7
Saved by grace alone.
the whole teaching of the OT and up to Christ and his teachings is that the law could never make anyone righteous, that it had the opposite effect. Only God can clothe one in righteousness. We do indeed have a different gospel.