9 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So the disciple who was Jesus' favourite said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Hearing it was the Lord, Simon Peter threw on his blouse (he was stripped for work) and jumped into the water,

whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps.

He will show you a large room upstairs, with couches spread, all ready; prepare the passover for us there."

Now you and the Sanhedrin must inform the commander that you propose to investigate this case in detail, so that he may have Paul brought down to you. We will be all ready to kill him on the way down."

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work,

Now do not let them persuade you. More than forty of them are lying in ambush for him, and they have taken a solemn oath neither to eat nor to drink till they have murdered him. They are all ready at this moment, awaiting your consent."

And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to blow their blasts.

So the four angels were unloosed, who had been kept ready for that hour and day and month and year, to kill the third of men.