A second time he sent other slaves, and said to them, 'Tell the invited guests that I have my reception all ready, my bullocks and fatlings are butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding reception!'

Then he will show you a large upstairs room, furnished and ready; get everything ready for us there."

So I have thought it necessary to urge these brothers to visit you ahead of me and get your promised love-offering ready beforehand, so as to have it ready as a real love-offering, not as one grasped and grudgingly given.

The locusts look like horses armed for battle; on their heads were what appeared to be crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces;

they had breastplates that seemed to be made of steel; the noise of their wings was like the noise of vast numbers of chariots and horses rushing into battle;

They are the spirits of demons that perform wonders, and they go forth to the kings of the whole world, to muster them for battle on the great day of the Almighty God.

He will go forth to lead astray the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and to muster them for battle, and their number will be like the sands of the seashore.

Again, indeed, if the bugle does not sound a call distinct and clear, who will prepare for battle?

I want you to know what a battle I am fighting for you and for those in Laodicea, yes, for all who have never known me personally,

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be an instrument for honorable uses, consecrated, useful for the Master, and ready for any good service.

Constantly remind people to submit to and obey the rulers who have authority over them, so as to be ready for any good enterprise,

And have a guest-room ready for me, too, for I hope that through your prayers I shall have the gracious privilege of coming to you.

partly by being exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violent sufferings, and partly by showing yourselves ready to share with those who were living in this condition.

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.

but in your hearts be consecrated to Christ as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who asks a reason for the hope you have. But you must do it in gentleness and reverence,

but they will have to give account for it to Him who is ready to judge living and dead.

This is he who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah, when he said: "Here is a voice of one who shouts in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord; Make the paths straight for him.'"

Then the woman fled into the desert, where she had a place of safety made ready by God, so that she might be cared for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

(See! I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see his shame.)

He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready.

Then it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left,' and it finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

Let us be glad and shout for joy and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride to join her husband.

So you, too, must continue to be ready, for at an hour you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come.

And while they were going to buy it, the bridegroom came, and the bridesmaids that were ready went in with him to the wedding reception; and the door was closed.

On the first day of the Passover Feast the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to get the Passover supper ready for you to eat?"

So the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover supper ready.

After that he said to his slaves, 'My wedding reception is ready, but those invited have proved unworthy.

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

He is a voice of one who shouts in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord; make the paths straight for Him.'"

So He told His disciples to keep a little boat ready for Him all the time, to prevent the crowds from crushing Him.

He will go before Him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the upright, to make ready for the Lord a people perfectly prepared."

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready His ways,

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the usual time for killing the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked Him, "Where do you want us to go and get the Passover supper ready for you to eat?"

So off the disciples went; they reached the city, found everything just as He had told them, and they got the Passover supper ready.

as it is written in the sermon-book of the prophet Isaiah: "Here is a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord, make the paths straight for Him.

And it goes and finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

That slave who knows his master's wishes and does not get ready or act upon them will be severely punished.

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to the invited guests, 'Come, for it is now ready.'

but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'?

But Peter said to Him, "Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to death with you!"

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.

But he got very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

After this we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

So you and the council must now notify the colonel to bring him down to you, as though you were going to look into his case more carefully, but before he gets down we will be ready to kill him."

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

Then he called in two of his captains and said to them, "Get two hundred men ready to march to Caesarea, with seventy mounted soldiers and two hundred armed with spears, to leave at nine o'clock tonight."

If a man is ready and willing to give, his gift is acceptable in accordance with what he has, not with what he does not have.

for I know your readiness to help in it. I am boasting of you about it to the Macedonians, reminding them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated the most of them.

But I send the brothers that in this matter my boasting of you may not turn out to be an idle boasting, that you all may be ready, as I have told them you will be,

to keep me -- not to mention you -- from being humiliated for having such confidence in you, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready.

It is now the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I will never ask you for financial support, for it is not your money but you yourselves that I want; for children are not by duty bound to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.