'Ready' in the Bible

Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet."'

Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

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

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, because everything is now ready.'

Won't the master instead say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink'?

But Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

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

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

Then Paul replied, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

After these days we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

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."

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."

Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, "Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o'clock tonight,

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.

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

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

who by God's power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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.

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

And I saw the holy city -- the new Jerusalem -- descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.