Revelation 2:5

Christ calls them to remember, repent, and return to their first works, or he will remove their lampstand. It matters because lost love must be addressed by genuine repentance.

Cross-references · 30

• Rev 3:2–3Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Rev 2:16Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
• Hos 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Acts 17:30–31Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
• Rev 2:21–22Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
• Ezek 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
• Mal 4:6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
• Luke 1:17And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
• Rev 1:20This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
• Rev 2:19I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.
• Isa 1:26I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
• Luke 12:45–46But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
• Ezek 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
• Mark 12:9What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.
• Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
• Matt 24:48–51But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
• Matt 21:41–43“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
• Hos 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
• Heb 10:32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
• Ezek 16:61–63Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.
• Mal 3:4Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
• Rev 9:20–21Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
• Gal 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• Jer 2:2–3“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Rev 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
• Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
• Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
• 2 Pet 1:12–13Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
• Rev 16:9And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

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