Revelation 2:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Revelation 2:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
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. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

We have here, I. The inscription, where observe, 1. To whom the first of these epistles is directed: To the church of Ephesus, a famous church planted by the apostle Paul (Acts 19:1-41), and afterwards watered and governed by John, who had his residence very much there. We can hardly think that Timothy was the angel, or sole pastor and bishop, of this church at this time,—that he who was of a very…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. somewhat ... because--Translate, “I have against thee (this) that,” &c. 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 1Ti 5:12, “cast off their first faith.” See the Ephesians’ first love, Ep 1:15. This epistle was written…