Parallel Verses

Worrell New Testament

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

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.

Holman Bible

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

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.

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 and you have patience, and did bear for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. 4  But I have it against you, that you left your first love. 5 Remember, therefore whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your candlestick out of its place, if you do not repent.

Cross References

Matthew 24:12-13

and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.

Philippians 1:9

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

Philippians 3:13-16

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

Hebrews 6:10-11

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:20

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces My servants to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

Revelation 3:14-17

"And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write these things," saith the Amen, the Faithful and the True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

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