Bible Verses About Preparation for Service

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:

Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the Lord.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

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

And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

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:

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.