Revelation 2:4

“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned your first love.”

Revelation 2:4 · direct translation from the Greek
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Revelation 2:4, word by word

I haveἔχωechō

have

To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.

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you have abandonedἀφῆκεςaphēkes

leave

To part from something or someone and go on without it.

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firstπρώτηνprōtēn

first

The one who comes before all others, in time or in order.

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loveἀγάπηνagapēn

love

Love that gives itself, seeking the other's good, like God's.

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The context

3and you have endurance, and you have borne up for the sake of my name, and you have not grown weary.

4 · This verse (above)

5Remember, then, from where you have fallen, and change your mind, and do the first works; otherwise, I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind.

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