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What does Revelation 2:5 mean?

"Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent."

— Revelation 2:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

2

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

3

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

4

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

5

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

6

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

8

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

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