We are not righteous because of our works; we are righteous because of Jesus. We can’t read the Bible enough, we can’t pray enough, and we can’t worship enough to become righteous. All of these things are what righteous people do. When we do things in the efforts to be righteous we undermine what Jesus really did. What Jesus did is what makes us righteous.

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Through Jesus, we are made righteous.