ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ, ᴘᴜᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴅʏ ᴀʀᴍᴏᴜʀ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴅ’ꜱ ʀɪɢʜᴛᴇᴏᴜꜱɴᴇꜱꜱ.

Righteousness in the Dictionary is defined as, “the quality of being morally right or justifiable.” 
But we can never be morally right or justifiable before GOD on our own.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah 64:6 KJV

GOD made HIM WHO had no sin to be sin for us, so that in HIM we might become the Righteousness of GOD.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV

It is because of HIM that you are in CHRIST JESUS, WHO has become for us Wisdom from GOD—that is, our Righteousness, Holiness and Redemption.
1 Corinthians 1:30 NIV

We need CHRIST as our Body Armour. 
We need to clothe ourselves with HIM every single day. 
And the only way we can do that is by dying to self and being alive in HIM. 

My old self has been crucified with CHRIST. It is no longer I who...