Yet we will be judged according to our works...
There’s “works”...and then there’s “works”. :-)
In other words, the term is used differently by different speakers/writers in the Bible. We have to understand how each is using it, otherwise we won’t understand what he’s saying.
Even if we are, since the believer who has been born again by faith in Jesus Christ, is good to go because the righteousness of Christ has been imputed to him, credited to his account.
When God looks at that believer, He sees the righteous life of Christ.
Not for salvation.. for rewards
Yes those who claim their works justify will be judged according to those works. Those who present the credentials of Christ Jesus, another matter:
John 3:
18 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.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.