'Be Ready' in the Bible

And be ready against the third day: for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province, was published to all people, that they should be ready against that day.

The copy of the writing for a commandment, to be given in every province was published to all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up before hand your bounty, of which ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.