I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

And the forms of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle, and upon their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men,

and they had cuirasses like steel cuirasses, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.

And I saw three impure spirits like frogs [proceed] from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet;??14 for [these] are spirits of demons that perform miracles, that go to the kings of all the world, to assemble them for the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

and go forth to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, the Gog and the Magog [the king and the people], and to assemble them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell the invited, Behold, I have prepared my supper, my oxen and fatted creatures are killed, and all things are ready; come to the wedding.

Then he said to his servants, The wedding indeed is ready, but the invited were not worthy.

Therefore be you also ready, for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.

And while they went to buy the bridegroom came; and the ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.

And he will show you a large upper room, furnished, ready; and there prepare for us.

And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.