Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your 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.
A Conservative Version
Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.
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.
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 you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness. 4 But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love. 5 So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.
Cross References
Matthew 24:12-13
And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.
Jeremiah 2:2-5
Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
Philippians 1:9
And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
Philippians 3:13-16
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
2 Thessalonians 1:3
It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
Hebrews 6:10-11
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
Revelation 3:14-17
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order: