Are you catholic believing in works based salvation?
I'm a 1 John 3:7-10 believer.
7Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
Works have nothing to do with making a person righteous. Works show that a person has the righteousness of God. Ultimately, people who do not have the evidence of God's righteousness in them don't have God's righteousness. They have yet to be born again by the Spirit of God.