23 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.

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

and the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his coat about him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.

They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

And he will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready: and there make ready for us.

Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.