Never By Works! Only Through Jesus!

Salvation has never been by works.
Titus; 3:4-7
(But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.)

This is the new birth. Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. We also must go through this new birth (washing of regeneration) if we want to enter into the kingdom.
John; 3:5
(Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Nicodemus didn't understand what Jesus was telling him and questioned Him further about being born again.
John; 3:5-6
(Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again')
Jesus was talking about the spiritual washing or purification of the soul, accomplished by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God at the moment of salvation.

Never put your faith in what you have done as a means to entering into the kingdom. Give your life to Jesus and repent of your sins and ask Him to forgive you. Jesus said that all who come to Him, He will forgive and save.
John; 6:37
(All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.)
God is the guarantee that "all" He has chosen will come to Him for salvation.
John; 6:44
(No one comes to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.)

What we can do means nothing. It is all about what God has done for us in providing a way for forgiveness of our sins. When He sent Jesus to earth to die on the cross, Jesus was the sacrificial lamb shedding His blood on our behalf. Jesus took all of our sin on Himself and died in our place so that we could have eternal life in Him. There is no other way to Heaven but through Him.
Acts; 4:12
(Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.)
There are only two religious paths; the broad way of works salvation leading to eternal death, and the narrow way of faith in Jesus, leading to eternal life.
John; 14:6
(Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.)
Remember, eternal life is in Jesus and Jesus only.
1John; 5:12
(He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.)

God Bless You!