Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ready' occurs 118 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ready' in the standard works and contain 11.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 9:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 12:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 15:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 58 9 67
NT 42 22 64
BM 6 21 27
DC 9 11 20
PGP 3 3 6
TOTAL 118 66 184

D&C 33:17
Wherefore, be faithful, praying always, having your lamps trimmed and burning, and oil with you, that you may be ready at the coming of the Bridegroom--

D&C 35:12
And there are none that doeth good except those who are ready to receive the fulness of my gospel, which I have sent forth unto this generation.

D&C 50:46
Watch, therefore, that ye may be ready. Even so. Amen.

D&C 65:3
Yea, a voice crying-- Prepare ye the way of the Lord, prepare ye the supper of the Lamb, make ready for the Bridegroom.

D&C 86:5
Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reap down the fields;

D&C 88:94
And another angel shall sound his trump, saying: That great church, the mother of abominations, that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, that persecuteth the saints of God, that shed their blood-- she who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of the sea-- behold, she is the tares of the earth; she is bound in bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them; therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.

D&C 101:54
And behold, the watchman upon the tower would have seen the enemy while he was yet afar off; and then ye could have made ready and kept the enemy from breaking down the hedge thereof, and saved my vineyard from the hands of the destroyer.

D&C 135:4
When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me-- he was murdered in cold blood."-- The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go-- shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was-- he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:

D&C 136:16
And let my servants that have been appointed go and teach this, my will, to the saints, that they may be ready to go to a land of peace.