AC 3147 - What makes good works good?

AC 3147 [7]
Good works are evil works unless those things are removed
which are of the love of self and of the world;
for when works are done before these have been removed,
they indeed appear good outwardly,
but are evil inwardly;
for they are done either for the sake of reputation, or for gain,
or for the sake of one's honor, or for recompense,
thus they are either self-meritorious or hypocritical;
for that which is of the love of self and the world causes the works to be such.
But when these evils are removed,
the works become good;
and they are goods of charity;
that is, in them there is not regard to self, to the world,
to reputation, to recompense;
thus they are neither self-meritorious nor hypocritical;
for then celestial love and spiritual love flow in from the Lord into the works
and cause them to be love and charity in act;
and then the Lord through these loves
also purifies the natural or external man,
and disposes it into order,
so as to receive correspondently
the celestial and spiritual things that flow in.