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JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IS A INWARD CLEANSING

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith (the revealed truths) prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates" 2 Cor 13:5,
Note " in the faith" = In the truth.

If you do not believe that in justification God cleanses, or washes or renews you, giving you the mind of Christ that causes you to keep the commandments of God as written in Titus 3:5-7 (quoted below) it will mean that, it is not God in you working his good pleasure; therefore all your works will be self motivated: Therefore the strong rebukes from Christ in Matthew 23 (quoted below) will apply to you.
(Titus 3:5-7 KJV
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; [6] Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; [7] That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. COMPARE WITH

Ezekiel 36:25-27 KJV
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. [26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them .)

Examine yourself. 
Matthew 23:2-5,13-15,26-28 KJV
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: [3] All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. [4] For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. [5] But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, [13] But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves , neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. [14] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. [15] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. [26] Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. [27] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. [28] Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Who Christ loveth he chastens and rebukes that they may repent that he may come into them and sup with them, in fellowship with them i.e. he shares his mind with them in which is Righteousness.

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