Parallel Verses
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.
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
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
4
Cross References
Matthew 24:12-13
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Jeremiah 2:2-5
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, "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
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Philippians 3:13-16
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
Hebrews 6:10-11
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servantsto practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 3:14-17
"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.