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May 16, 2023 · Question. What does it mean to have left your first love (Revelation 2:4)? Answer. Revelation 2:1-7 contains Jesus’ message to the church in Ephesus, the first of seven exhortations to various churches in the Roman Empire.
Jul 3, 2023 · Answer. Jesus Christ’s letter to the first-century church in Ephesus (Revelation 2:1–7) expresses a concern our Lord might share with any number of churches today: “I have this against you,” He writes, “that you have left your first love.
The original Greek literally states, “…because your love, the first one, you have left.” The phrase “the first one” is a clarification of what type of love Jesus was describing. This phrase comes from the Greek words ten proten, which modifies agape to mean first love or early love. Jesus used this phrase here to remind the church in ...
3 You have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. 4 “But this I have against you, that you have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember then from where you have fallen. Repent and do the deeds you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place—unless you repent.
Their first love is remedied by returning to their first works/deeds. Put differently you devote yourself to what you love. You devote, time, attention, energy, importance to what you love. The Ephesians stopped devotion to their first love/deeds and turned to identifying heresy, possibly because there was some overlap.
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. New Living Translation. “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! English Standard Version.
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Jan 16, 2018 · We do not want to give our souls rest until you are our first love (Revelation 2:4). We want this more than anything: to love the triune God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength (Matthew 22:37).
