for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

"Again he sent out other slaves. 'Tell the invited guests,' he said, 'that my luncheon is now ready; my oxen and fat cattle are killed; everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.'

If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle. On their heads there was something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like men's faces,

and they had breastplates something like breastplates of iron; and the noise of their wings was like the noise of chariots, of many horses rushing into battle.

For these are the spirits of demons performing miracles, who go forth to the kings of the habitable earth, to gather them together for the battle of the great Day of God, the Almighty.

Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit.

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

who, through faith, are continuously guarded by the power of God for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last days.

But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

Be continually on the watch, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die. For I have not found your works perfected before my God.

And the sixth poured his bowl upon the great river, the River Euphrates, and its water was dried up so as to make ready the way for the kings that come from the sunrising.

Let us rejoice and triumph and give him the glory; For the marriage of the Lamb is come, And his bride has made herself ready,

And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart.