Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Context
This verse from Revelation Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Letters to four churches: Ephesus has forsaken first love; Smyrna faces poverty and tribulation but is spiritually rich; Pergamum tolerates false teaching and immorality; Thyatira tolerates Jezebel the false prophetess. Promises to the overcomers: hidden manna, a new name, authority …
Other Translations
But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
Cross References
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God …
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that …
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy …
Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and …
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who …
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to …
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true …
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou …
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.