23 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

and 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 your wives."

Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

"Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!

Elisha told Gehazi, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don't stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child's face."

Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

The Lord reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

"They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

"'Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

The watchmen of Nineveh shout: "An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!" "Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!"

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."

So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place."

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.

The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the wilderness.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request."

Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.