Devine Scripture

Revelation 2:4

Revelation chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.

v.4This passage

v.5Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 2:20

    But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:9

    But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

  • Revelation 3:14

    And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

  • Philippians 1:9

    And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

  • Hebrews 6:10

    for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

  • Philippians 3:13

    Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,