For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
We all know, or ought to know, that God is righteous and holy. He has directed that man be in His image. This means that man is to be righteous and holy.
"Righteousness" refers to behavior. Our behavior reveals our character. God always behaves in a righteous manner because God's Character is righteous.
"Righteousness" refers to "good works"—that is, actions that God esteems to be "good."
A person, man or woman, boy or girl, who behaves according to what God judges to be good works is a righteous person. God approves of his or her deeds.
The verse above says that God has created us in Christ Jesus to do good works, and that these good works were prepared in advance for us to do.
This means that God has settled upon specific elements of behavior. They all come from God's Character but do not include all of God's Character, His image. For instance, God executes vengeance, but vengeance is not a work, not an element of behavior, that God is creating us in Christ to perform.
The Lampstand of the Tabernacle of the Congregation portrays the anointed One, Christ, who bears witness of the Character of God. The anointing includes seven Spirits, all of whom are part of the Holy Spirit of God.
John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, (Revelation 1:4)
The seven Spirits who are before the Throne of God rest upon Jesus Christ and upon the members of His Body. These Spirits produce seven kinds of behavior, seven kinds of "good works" that God's workmanship has created us to do.