Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

New American Standard Bible

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

King James Version

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

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

But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

I have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428

σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

thou hast left
ἀφίημι 
Aphiemi 
Usage: 57

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Revelation 2:4

Context Readings

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus

3 You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary. 4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first. 5 Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.


Cross References

Matthew 24:12-13

Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.

Jeremiah 2:2-5

“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.

Philippians 1:9

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

Philippians 3:13-16

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

Hebrews 6:10-11

For God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 3:14-17

“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea:

“The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation says:

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