23 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

Then the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.

“Now gird up your loins like a man,
And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

“Now gird up your loins like a man;
I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad’s face.”

Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.

The Lord has bared His holy arm
In the sight of all the nations,
That all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

‘They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.

Prepare your work outside
And make it ready for yourself in the field;
Afterwards, then, build your house.

“Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

The one who scatters has come up against you.
Man the fortress, watch the road;
Strengthen your back, summon all your strength.

but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.

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

Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place.”

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind.