Revelation 2:5
Therefore remember from what you have fallen, and repent, and live the life that you lived before; or else, I will come and remove your Lamp from its place, unless you repent.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
4But this I have against you – You have abandoned your first love.
6But this is in your favor – You hate the life lived by the Nikolaitans, and I also hate it.
Cross References
Hosea 14:1Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
Malachi 4:6He will turn fathers’ hearts to their sons and sons’ hearts to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgement.”
Matthew 24:48But, should the servant be a bad servant, and say to themselves ‘My master 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 →