'Ready' in the Bible

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.

They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.

Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.

Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.

Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,

Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

But to be seated at my right hand or at my left is not for me to give: but it is for those for whom it has been made ready.

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.

And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

Which you have made ready before the face of all nations;

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.

And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.

Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.

So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.

And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.

And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?

And he will take you up to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready.

And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.

And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

Now there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.

Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.

And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;

So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me.

For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order

And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night:

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.

Then make the doing of it complete; so that as you had a ready mind, you may give effect to it as you are able.

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:

And we have sent with them our brother, whose ready spirit has been made clear to us at times and in ways without number, but it is now all the more so because of the certain faith which he has in you.

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.

So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;

Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.

If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,