Jesus said not to think of any adult who is born in the flesh as "good." That's what He meant in saying, "No man born of a woman is good."
He leads us to know that children are born innocent of sin; that this world's role in leading them wrong is inevitable (Matthew 18:6-7), but that there's redemption or reconciliation in Him.
That means anyone can repent of sins and see one another in a spiritual way instead of in a worldly way. There came a time, in the lives of Jesus' disciples, when men had to adjust to seeing one another as if everyone had overcome sins and could live heavenly, as if no one ever sinned (1 Corinthians 5:15-21).
"All things are become new" when we think about Jesus, the Apostle Paul said, feeling uplifted in knowing that, even though men couldn't see Jesus in person anymore, the church could celebrate knowing Him in a different way, entirely "in the Spirit," as if He had been spiritually born again in the heart of everyone who believes on Him.
In Jesus, instead of seeing one another as sinners, we see one another as overcomers, as souls who have have been spiritually "born again" into Christ's righteousness.
In Jesus, we become as Jesus, grieved by sin, and spiritually born again (becoming good in Him) by grace.
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