'Ready' in the Bible

For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.

Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast.

Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy.

Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was shut.

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to eat the passover?

And the disciples did as Jesus appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?

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

And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him .

Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

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

and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many'stripes ;

and he sent forth his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make ready for us the passover, that we may eat.

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready?

And he will show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

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

Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;

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

Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.

Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night:

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay 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;

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

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

but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

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

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you .

Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might by made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising.

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.