Revelation 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 24:12-13 : 12 and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; 13 but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;
  • Jer 2:2-5 : 2 `Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown. 3 Holy `is' Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah. 4 Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel. 5 Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,
  • Heb 6:10-11 : 10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; 11 and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
  • Phil 3:13-16 : 13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth -- 14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you, 16 but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another, 10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;
  • Rev 3:14-17 : 14 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God; 15 I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So -- because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth; 17 because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rev 2:5-8
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    5remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not reform;

    6but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

    7He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

    8`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

  • Rev 2:1-3
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    1`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:

    2I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

    3and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

  • Rev 2:18-22
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    18`And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

    19I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.

    20`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

    21and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

    22lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,

  • Rev 3:15-20
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    15I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.

    16So -- because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;

    17because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

    18I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

    19`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

    20lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

  • Rev 3:1-3
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    1And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;

    2become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

    3`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

  • Rev 2:14-16
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    14`But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

    15so hast thou, even thou, those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans -- which thing I hate.

    16`Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

  • Rev 2:24-25
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    24`And to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, and who did not know the depths of the Adversary, as they say; I will not put upon you other burden;

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    12having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

  • Rev 3:8-11
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    8I have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door -- opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name;

    9lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.

    10`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

    11Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • Jer 15:6
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    6Thou -- thou hast left Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

    20For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

  • 2 John 1:5
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    5and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • Rev 2:29
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    29He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

  • Heb 6:1
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    1Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

  • John 5:42
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    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

  • Hos 2:7
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    7And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

  • 2 Pet 1:9
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    9for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

  • Jude 1:17
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    17and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Rev 1:11-12
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    11`I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

    12And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,

  • Jer 2:2
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    2`Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;