9 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope undoubtingly for the grace that is to be brought to you at the manifestation of Jesus Christ;

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hearing that it was the Lord, girded on his outer garment, for he had on nothing but his under one, and threw himself into the lake.

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

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

Now therefore do ye with the council give notice to the chief captain, that he bring him down to you, as though ye were about to examine his case more thoroughly; and we are ready to kill him before he cometh near you.

Put them in mind to submit themselves to governments, to authorities, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,

But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.

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

And the four angels were loosed, who were in readiness for the hour, and day, and month, and year, to slay the third part of men.