What Does the Bible Say About Preparedness?

Colossians 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Luke 6:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

1 Corinthians 15:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Romans 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

1 John 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

Ephesians 1:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Psalm 17:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

30 Bible Verses about Preparedness

Colossians 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 6:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 1:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 17:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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30 Bible Verses about Preparedness

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Colossians 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 6:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 1:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 17:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote