This is the same way the bible would define righteousness but because God weighs the heart, a problem could arise. As you are reading this post, what are your thoughts? Are they pure or morally upright? Would you say your thoughts are in right standing with God? In other words, do you think as Jesus would think? I am willing to say, without controversy, that the answers would be mostly negative.
That is, unless you do what the Apostle Paul advises in Philippians 2.5, a critical portion of the great exchange. Paul says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” Until you start thinking like Jesus, all your righteousness is as filthy rags. So, Paul tells us to exchange our filthy minds for the mind of Christ. Go to Him with your dirty mind and return with a righteous mind.