23 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Therefore, {when you have prepared your minds for action} [by] being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.

And he said to the people, "Be ready {for the third day}. Do not go near to a woman."

And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain.

but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel.

{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

"{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy."

Now Elisha the prophet called for one of the sons of the prophets, and he said to him, "Gird your loins, and take this flask of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead.

Yahweh has bared {his holy arm} to the eyes of all the nations, and all [the] ends of [the] earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, [when he] heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked) and threw himself into the sea.

They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare {everything}, but [there is] no [one] going to the battle, for my anger [is] on all of their multitude.

Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.

Be ready, and prepare {yourselves}, you and all of your assembly, the assembling around you, and you must be for them as a guard.

{One who shatters} has come up against you! Guard [the] fortification! Watch [the] road! Gird [your] loins! {Muster} all [your] strength!

But the wise ones took olive oil in flasks with their lamps.

And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished [and] ready, and prepare for us there."

Therefore, now you along with the Sanhedrin explain to the military tribune that he should bring him down to you, as [if you] were going to determine more accurately the things concerning him. And we are ready to do away with him before he comes near."

Remind them to be subject to the rulers [and] to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work,

Thus the goat shall bear on it to {a barren region} all their guilt, and he shall send the goat away into the desert.

You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more [than] forty men of {their number} are lying in wait [for] him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for {you to agree}."

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves in order to blow them.

And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.