Actually that's wrong because once we are regenerated in our spirit we do receive his Holiness and righteousness in that new nature but then the process of sanctification begins in the soul and this process of sanctification is Progressive depending upon the individual and how much he gives himself over to that process of sanctification or being set apart from this world and the things that this world. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus in our recreated spirit but not in our soul since we are spirit, soul and body