'Be Ready' in the Bible

And 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: come not at your wives.

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

but even a month long, and until it come out at the nostrils of you, that ye be ready to parbreak: because that ye have cast the LORD aside which is among you, and have wept before him saying: Why came we out of Egypt?"

but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

He commanded them, saying, “Listen closely, you are going to lie in wait and ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far away from the city, but all of you be ready.

But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city.

And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.

Ezra himself hath come up from Babylon, and he is a scribe ready in the law of Moses, that Jehovah God of Israel gave, and the king giveth to him -- according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him -- all his request.

The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

give it their curse also, even those that be ready to raise vp Leviathan.

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.

He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.

For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon your lips.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

"Announce in Egypt, proclaim in Migdol. Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes. Say, "Take your positions and be ready, for the sword will devour all around you.'

But as for you, O house of Israel Thus, saith my Lord. Yahweh, Go. serve every man his own manufactured gods, Yet afterwards, surely Ye shall be ready to hearken unto me, - And my holy name, shall ye profane no more, With your gifts, and With your manufactured gods.

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

Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.

And he said unto me, To build for it a house in the land of Shinar, - so shall it be ready, and they shall settle it there, upon its own base?

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison.

Therefore, you [who follow Me] must also be ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him.

And he spoke to his disciples that a little boat should be ready for him, because of the crowd, lest they should press upon him:

Jesus said, "Do not stop him; no one who performs any miracle in my name will be ready to speak evil of me.

He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord."

“Be ready for service and have your lamps lit.

You too, be continually ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands; bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready to disbelieve but to believe."

Then Paul took the men and the next day he observed the ceremony of purification with them. Then he went into the Temple, declaring [to the priest] when he would fulfill the [required] days of the purification [ceremony] and [be ready] for the sacrifices to be offered for each of them.

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

Be ready to rejoice with those who rejoice; to weep with those who weep;

I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not ready.

Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience.

Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.

preach the word, be ready in season [and] out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

who are always guarded by the power of God through faith, in order that you may receive that final salvation which will be ready to be uncovered for you at the last time.

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you .

In this we know his love, that He laid down his life for us: and we should be ready to lay down our lives for the brethren.