Revelation 2:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.”

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BSBPD

“But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Revelation 2:4 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  2. Matthew 24:12Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
  3. Matthew 25:7Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
  4. Philippians 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
  5. Philippians 3:13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:9Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
  7. 2 Thessalonians 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
  8. Hebrews 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
  9. Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
  10. Revelation 2:20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  11. Revelation 3:14To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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