Nope, from either Jesus' or Paul's perspective, that dog won't hunt.
Matt 5: 21 - 48 (I'm posting the last few verses of this section just to give you the 'flavor' of the full text:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. (this was an Essene spin on Leviticus 19: 18)
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans [do] the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Since the standard is perfection and none of us meet it, we only get in on the merit of Jesus - Romans 3 - 21 - 31, see below Romans 3, 4 - 12)
Romans 3: 4 - 12
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
(Psa 14:1–3; 53:1–4 )
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What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Nope, from either Jesus' or Paul's perspective, that dog won't hunt.
Matt 5: 21 - 48 (I'm posting the last few verses of this section just to give you the 'flavor' of the full text:
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mat/5/1/s_934001
Since the standard is perfection and none of us meet it, we only get in on the merit of Jesus - Romans 3 - 21 - 31, see below Romans 3, 4 - 12)
Romans 3: 4 - 12
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https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/rom/3/21-31/s_1049021