Revelation 2:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹Nevertheless I have› [somewhat] ‹against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.›

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  • Matt 24:12-13 : 12 ‹And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.› 13 ‹But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.›
  • Jer 2:2-5 : 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown. 3 Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • Heb 6:10-11 : 10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 ¶ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
  • Phil 3:13-16 : 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 ¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 ¶ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 ‹But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.›
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 ‹Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.›
  • Rev 3:14-17 : 14 ¶ ‹And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;› 15 ‹I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.› 16 ‹So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.› 17 ‹Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:›
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

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    5‹Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.›

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  • Rev 2:1-3
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    1¶ ‹Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;›

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    18¶ ‹And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet› [are] ‹like fine brass;›

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    20‹Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.›

    21‹And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.›

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    15‹I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.›

    16‹So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.›

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    18‹I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and› [that] ‹the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.›

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    5¶ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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    19We love him, because he first loved us.