23 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought unto you by the declaring of Jesus Christ;

that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

And he said unto the people, "Be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives."

And be ready against the morning that thou mayest come up early unto the mount of Sinai and stand me there upon the top of the mount.

And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.

Gird up thy loins like a man, for I will question thee, see thou give me a direct answer.

Gird up thy loins like a man, and tell me the things that I will ask thee.

Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand and away. If any man meet thee, salute him not. And if any salute thee, answer him not again. And put my staff upon the boy."

And Elisha the prophet called unto one of the children of the prophets, and said to him, "Gird up thy loins and take this box of oil in thine hand and get thee to Ramoth in Gilead.

The LORD will make bare his holy arm, and show it forth in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.

Then said the disciple whom Jesus loved unto Peter, "It is the Lord." When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his mantle to him, for he was naked, and sprang into the sea.

The trumpets shall ye blow, and make you all ready, but no man shall go to the battle, for I am wroth with all the whole multitude.

First, make up thy work that is without, and look well unto that which thou hast in the field, and then build thine house.

Therefore prepare thee; set thyself in array with all thy people that are come unto thee by heaps, and be thou their defense.

The scatterer shall come up against thee, and lay siege to the castle. Look thou well to the streets, make thy loins strong, arm thyself with all thy might:

But the wise took oil with them in their vessels with their lamps also.

And he will show you a great parlour, paved and prepared: there make ready for us."

Now therefore give ye knowledge to the upper captain, and to the council that he bring him forth unto us tomorrow, as though we would know some thing more perfectly of him. But we, or ever he come near, are ready in the mean season to kill him."

Warn them, that they submit themselves to rule and power, to obey the officers, that they be ready unto all good works,

And the goat shall bear upon him all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.

But follow not their minds: for there lie in wait for him of them, more than forty men, which have bound themselves with a vow, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now are they ready, and look for thy promise."

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to blow.

And the four angels were loosed which were prepared for a hour, for a day, for a month, and for a year, for to slay the third part of men.