He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

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

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’

So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”