Yes we are justified by our works by God. Just not according to how Paul uses the word. Works justify you as being righteous in Christ. Faith is how you got that righteousness. We are justified by both faith and works. The faith that saves is the faith that makes you righteous apart from works and can be seen in how you live. If you can't see your faith in how you live you don't have the faith that makes a person righteous apart from works. That's why a man must be justified by both faith and works. Real faith works.
'Then said they unto Him,
What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them,
This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.'
(John 6:28)
'And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past
in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;
and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved )
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace
in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.'
(Eph 2:1-10)
* The obedience of faith is to believe on Him whom He hath sent.
