Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.
American Standard Version
But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
"But, this is what I have against you, that you have forsaken your first love [i.e., love for Christ and His church].
Anderson New Testament
But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Bible in Basic English
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
Common New Testament
But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Daniel Mace New Testament
nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Darby Translation
but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Nevertheless, I have against you that you have lost your first love.
Godbey New Testament
But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.
Goodspeed New Testament
But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first.
John Wesley New Testament
But I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
Julia Smith Translation
But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.
King James 2000
Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love.
Modern King James verseion
But I have against you that you left your first love.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, for thou hast left thy first love.
Moffatt New Testament
But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.
Montgomery New Testament
But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
NET Bible
But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!
New Heart English Bible
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
Noyes New Testament
But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
Sawyer New Testament
But I have against you that you have left your first love.
The Emphasized Bible
Nevertheless, I have against thee, that, thy first love, thou hast left.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Yet have I a charge against thee, that thou art gone back from thy first love.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.
Webster
Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Weymouth New Testament
Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.
Williams New Testament
But I hold it against you that you do not love me as you did at first.
World English Bible
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
Worrell New Testament
But I have it against you, that you left your first love.
Worsley New Testament
Yet I have somewhat against thee; for thou hast left thy first love.
Youngs Literal Translation
'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!
Themes
Affections » Should not grow cold
Backsliders » Instances of » Churches of asia
Backsliding » Results of » Loss of spiritual enthusiasm
Backsliding » Is leaving the first love
Ephesus » Apocalyptic message to
Love » For Christ » Grown cold
Topics
Interlinear
Alla
References
Morish
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Letter To The Church In Ephesus
3 And thou have perseverance. And thou endured because of my name, and did not become weary. 4 Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from where thou have fallen, and repent and do the first works. And if not, I come to thee quickly, and will move thy lampstand out of its place, if thou do not repent.
Cross References
Matthew 24:12-13
And because of the increased lawlessness, the love of the many will become cold.
Jeremiah 2:2-5
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, how thou went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment
Philippians 3:13-16
Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are indebted to thank God always about you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing greatly, and the love of each one of you all toward each other abounds.
Hebrews 6:10-11
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, because thou have there men who adhere to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, even to eat idol sacrifices, and to fornicate.
Revelation 2:20
Nevertheless, I have against thee that thou tolerate thy woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my bondmen to fornicate, and to eat idol sacrifices.
Revelation 3:14-17
And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and TRUE witness, the primacy of the creation of God: