Romans 13-15

"Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgement on spiritual matters".

Don't argue because one person celebrates the Sabbath on Saturday, and someone else takes no days off.

"As one who is fully in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love."

If someone wants to eat differently from you, leave them alone about it, and don't make things harder for them.

Now , Paul has a reputation as somewhat of a misogynistic, anti Semitic homophobe. And maybe he does get worse later but so far I'm not seeing it. I'm seeing a man with certain culturally imbedded attitudes, who is visibly struggling with a lot of stuff. In this chapter, he's quite supportive of women, mentioning a few who he's worked with, and telling people to listen to them.

He mentions Priscilla, Phoebe, Junia, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Persis, the mother of Rufus, the sister of Nereus, and also says "Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you." So there are eight women preachers mentioned here, plus Mary. Could be referring to Jesus mother, but I doubt it, she'd be really old at this point, if not dead. What other Mary could he be talking about? These people all seem to be important enough that they're only identified by a first name- Mary was a pretty popular name at the time so the mention of a Mary without any other qualifiers must be significant. Well, who's to say it's not that Mary anyway.

He also appears to have connections with various city officials in different places.
He has dictated this letter to someone called "Tertius".

It's important to bear in mind when reading the next books, that Paul a) spent most of his life before conversion as a conservative Jewish priest, and b) he didn't know that his words would end up being taken as Gospel two thousand years later. Since there was no Christian Bible yet, he didn't know these letters would be put in some book and circulated around the world. And c) Not everything that is supposed to be by Paul is actually by Paul. There's this guy Deutero!Paul.

His possible authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews had been questioned as early as Origen. Since at least 1750, a number of other letters commonly attributed to Paul have also been suspected by some of having been written by his followers in the 1st century.