What you are trying to do in your flesh, (be righteous) is already mine in Jesus Christ. I am perfect and complete "In Christ" Colossians 2:10.
If you are, then you have to LIVE UP TO THAT.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election.
Philippians 3:16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
Ephesians 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Colossians 1:10
so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 2:6
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.
King James Bible
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
2 Thessalonians 1:5 It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering,