'Be Ready' in the Bible

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, liberal,

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rulers, to be ready for every good work,