'Ready' in the Bible

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."

Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'

"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there."

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'

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

Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."