What does this passage mean? It means: If there was ANY possibility whatsoever that one could be seen as righteous before God's eyes by doing good works, then there was no reason for Christ to come. If that were so, Jesus could have just come and told us: "Just try harder, and then you will go to heaven".
But there was no possibility for a man to be justified by the law. God saw that it was IMPOSSIBLE for man to be righteousness before Him by works. This is why God sent His Son to die, so that all who would simply receive Christ's righteousness by faith would be counted as righteous before Him.
There is nothing we can do to make us look right before God. Even our best works are like filthy rags, contaminated by our imperfections. But it is Christ's righteousness that makes us to look beautiful and lovable in God's eyes. Praise be to God, who imputed the Righteous Christ with sin and guilt, so that He may impute us sinners with His righteousness.
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