Revelation 2:5
So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
4But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
6But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:12How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Ezekiel 16:61Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement.
Ezekiel 36:31And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
Hosea 14:1\13:16\Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
Malachi 4:6And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
Matthew Henry on Revelation 2:2-8
The Church in Ephesus. ( a. d. 95.) 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4… Read the whole commentary →