Revelation 2:4
2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
- KJV
- Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
- WEB
- But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- ASV
- But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
- DARBY
- but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
- BLB
- But I have against you that you abandoned your first love.
- ÅB
- Men jeg har imot deg at du har forlatt din første kjærlighet.
- OTB
- Men jeg har dette imot deg: Du har forlatt den kjærlighet du hadde først.
- B1930
- Men jeg har imot dig at du har forlatt din første kjærlighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 24:12–13
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:2–5
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Read in contextHebrews 6:10–11
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Read in context2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
Read in contextRevelation 3:14–17
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:9–10
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:13–16
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
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