'Be Ready' in the Bible

And be ready by 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 by the third day: come not near your wives.

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

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 command to be given in every province was published unto all people, so that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

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

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

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

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: