Revelation 2:4New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— ‘But I have [this] against you, that you have left your first love.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Nevertheless, I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Nevertheless, I have against thee, that, thy first love, thou hast left.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Neuertheles, I haue somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first loue.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Neuerthelesse, I haue [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first loue.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Nevertheless I have something against you, because you have left your first love.
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— But I have against thee, because thy first love thou hast forsaken.
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— Yet I have [a charge] against thee, on account of thy former love, which thou hast left. |
Nevertheless
235 {0235} Primeἀλλάalla{al-lah'}
Neuter plural of G0243; properly other things, that is, (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations).
I have
2192 {2192} Primeἔχωecho{ekh'-o}
A primary verb (including an alternate form σχέω [[scheo]], {skheh'-o}; used in certain tenses only); to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession, ability, contiguity, relation or condition).
z5719 <5719> Grammar
Tense - Present (See G5774) Voice - Active (See G5784) Mood - Indicative (See G5791) Count - 3019
[somewhat] against
2596 {2596} Primeκατάkata{kat-ah'}
A primary particle; (preposition) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case [genitive, dative or accusative] with which it is joined).
thee,
4675 {4675} Primeσοῦsou{soo}
Genitive case of G4771; of thee, thy.
because
3754 {3754} Primeὅτιhoti{hot'-ee}
Neuter of G3748 as conjugation; demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causatively because.
thou hast left
863 {0863} Primeἀφίημιaphiemi{af-ee'-ay-mee}
From G0575 and ἵημι [[hiemi]] (to send; an intensive form of εἶμι [[eimi]] (to go)); to send forth, in various applications.
z5656 <5656> Grammar
Tense - Aorist (See G5777) Voice - Active (See G5784) Mood - Indicative (See G5791) Count - 2319
thy
4675 {4675} Primeσοῦsou{soo}
Genitive case of G4771; of thee, thy.
first
4413 {4413} Primeπρῶτοςprotos{pro'-tos}
Contracted superlative of G4253; foremost (in time, place, order or importance).
love.
26 {0026} Primeἀγάπηagape{ag-ah'-pay}
From G0025; love, that is, affection or benevolence; specifically (plural) a love feast. |
Revelation 2:4
_ _ somewhat ... because — Translate, “I have against thee (this) that,” etc. It is not a mere somewhat”; it is everything. How characteristic of our gracious Lord, that He puts foremost all He can find to approve, and only after this notes the shortcomings!
_ _ left thy first love — to Christ. Compare 1 Timothy 5:12, “cast off their first faith.” See the Ephesians’ first love, Ephesians 1:15. This epistle was written under Domitian, when thirty years had elapsed since Paul had written his Epistle to them. Their warmth of love had given place to a lifeless orthodoxy. Compare Paul’s view of faith so called without love, 1 Corinthians 13:2. |
Revelation 2:4
But I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love — That love for which all that church was so eminent when St. Paul wrote his epistle to them. He need not have left this. He might have retained it entire to the end. And he did retain it in part, or there could not have remained so much of what was commendable in him. But he had not kept, as he might have done, the first tender love in its vigour and warmth. Reader, hast thou? |
Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have [somewhat] (a) against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
(a) To deal with you for. |
- I have:
Revelation 2:14 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.
Revelation 2:20 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.
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- because:
Revelation 3:14-17 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; ... 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:
Jeremiah 2:2-5 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. ... 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?
Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. ... But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment;
Philippians 3:13-16 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, ... Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ... 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;
2 Thessalonians 1:3 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;
Hebrews 6:10-11 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. ... And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
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