'Ready' in the Bible

So he sent other servants after saying, "Tell those who have been invited, "Look! I've prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!"'

"Then he told his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting."

Then all the bridesmaids woke up and got their lamps ready.

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him,

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there."

He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord."

So he sent messengers on ahead of him. On their way they went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him.

So be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at a time when you don't expect him."

When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, "Come! Everything is now ready.'

Of course not. Instead, he would say to him, "Get dinner ready for me, and put on your apron and wait on me until I eat and drink. Then you can eat and drink.'

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished. Get things ready for us there."

Peter told him, "Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to die with you!"

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

At this Paul replied, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!"

When our time there ended, we got ready to go up to Jerusalem.

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

Don't believe them, because more than 40 of them are planning to ambush him. They've taken an oath not to eat or drink before they've killed him. They are ready now, just waiting for your consent."

Then he summoned two centurions and ordered, "Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o'clock tonight, along with 70 mounted soldiers and 200 soldiers with spears.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?

See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.

Now I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be an idle boast, and so that you may stand ready, just as I said.

Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find out that you are not ready, we would be humiliated to say nothing of you in this undertaking.

Therefore, I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to visit you ahead of me, to make arrangements in advance for this gift you promised, and to have it ready as something given generously and not forced.

Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.

Remind believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do any honorable kind of work.

Through faith you are being protected by God's power for a salvation that is ready to be revealed at the end of this era.

They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

The seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to blow them.

So the four angels who were ready for that hour, day, month, and year were released to kill one-third of humanity.

Let us rejoice, be glad, and give him glory, because the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.