Revelation 2:4
Good News Translation
But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.

New Revised Standard Version
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Contemporary English Version
But I do have something against you! And it is this: You don't have as much love as you used to.

New American Bible
Yet I hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.

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But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.

I have.

Revelation 2:14,20 But I have against thee a few things: 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 and to commit fornication. . . .

because.

Revelation 3:14-17 And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God: . . .

Jeremiah 2:2-5 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown. . . .

Matthew 24:12,13 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. . . .

Philippians 1:9 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding:

Philippians 3:13-16 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before, . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:9,10 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another. . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.

Hebrews 6:10,11 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints. . . .

Context
To the Church in Ephesus
3And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted. 4But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity. 5Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance and do the first works. Or else I come to thee and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:2
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

Matthew 24:12
And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

Revelation 2:3
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