Revelation 2:4 KJV — MannaFest

Revelation 2:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

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Revelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.

Author: John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
Date: Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both

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Matthew 24:12–13
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
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.
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.
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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;

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The sin that Christ charged this church with was their decay and declension in holy love and zeal: Thou hast left thy first love; not left and forsaken the object of it, but lost the fervent degree of it that at first appeared. Observe, (1.) The first affections of men towards Christ, and holiness, and heaven, are usually lively and warm.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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 1Ti 5:12, "cast off their first faith." See the Ephesians' first love, Eph 1:15. This epistle was written under Domitian, when thirty years had elapsed since Paul had written his Epistle to them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Allusion Betrothal Jeremiah 2:2
'the love of thine espousals' (Israel's honeymoon devotion) -> Ephesus 'hast left thy first love'; espousal-love re-applied to the church. Hays: thematic coherence.
MT-ASV; Jer 2:2; Rev 2:4

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