That's understandable, the way Paul puts it, young ears wouldn't really understand unless he elaborated on it- but it was an epistle so.......Hats Off wrote:That is how we would teach on this verse (although it does not happen very often.) We are too conservative (prude, cautious, whatever) to talk frankly about this in a church service where young and old, married and single, are all present. Some of the modern versions of the Bible are too different for me - I want something fairly traditional - so I would never compare all the different translations for wording.
The ESV translation actually skips verse 21- it's numbering goes 18, 19, 20, 22 ,23 etc-
It really does seem to mix up Christianity to use all these different translations- we arrive at different conclusions on things simply because translations take liberties or this manuscript versus that manuscript.