'Ready' in the Bible

Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened [cattle] have been slaughtered, and everything [is] ready. Come to the wedding celebration!" '

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

For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].

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

And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.

And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished [and] ready, and prepare for us there."

And he will go on before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready."

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come]."

And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, 'Come, because now it is ready!'

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

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

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!"

So after these days we got ready [and] went up to Jerusalem.

Therefore, now you along with the Sanhedrin explain to the military tribune that he should bring him down to you, as [if you] were going to determine more accurately the things concerning him. And we are ready to do away with him before he comes near."

You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more [than] forty men of {their number} are lying in wait [for] him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for {you to agree}."

And he summoned two of the centurions [and] said, "Make ready from the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, in order that they may proceed as far as Caesarea.

because I know your readiness [to help], [concerning] which I keep on boasting to the Macedonians about you, that Achaia has been ready [to help] since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority [of them].

And {we are ready} to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is completed.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

preach the word, be ready in season [and] out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction.

By faith Abraham, [when he] was tested, offered Isaac, and the one who received the promises was ready to offer his one and only [son],

who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,

but set Christ apart [as] Lord in your hearts, always ready to [make] a defense to anyone who asks you [for] an accounting concerning the hope [that is] in you.

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