Revelation 2:4 “But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.”

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

World English Bible

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

American Standard Version

But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neuertheles, I haue somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first loue.

Darby Translation

but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

Young's Literal Translation

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

Bible in Basic English

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

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Cross references

“I have”

Revelation 2:14 Revelation 2:20

Revelation 2:14 · BSB

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immo…

Revelation 2:20 · BSB

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

“because”

Jeremiah 2:2–5 Philippians 1:9 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Revelation 3:14–17 Philippians 3:13–16 Matthew 24:12

Jeremiah 2:2–5 · BSB

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Philippians 1:9 · BSB

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

2 Thessalonians 1:3 · BSB

We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.

Revelation 3:14–17 · BSB

To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation.

Philippians 3:13–16 · BSB

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

Matthew 24:12 · BSB

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.

5Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

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