9 Bible Verses about Preparing For Action

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober, and stedfastly hope for the grace to be conferred upon you at the appearing of Jesus Christ;

Whereupon that disciple whom Jesus loved, saith to Peter, "It is the Lord." Then Simon Peter perceiving that it was the Lord, girded on his coat, (for he was stript,) and threw himself into the sea;

but the wise took oil in their vessels as well as in their lamps.

And he will shew you a large upper room ready prepared, there make preparation for us.

Now therefore do ye with the rest of the sanhedrim signify to the tribune, that he would bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you would examine more accurately some things concerning him: and we are ready to dispatch him before he come near you."

Admonish them to be submissive to governors and magistrates, to obey their orders, and to be ready to every good work;

But do not thou comply with them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and they are now ready, waiting for an order from thee.

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

And the four angels were let loose; who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, to kill the third part of men.