# Be Ready Bible Verses ## List of Bible Verses Where Jesus Says "Be Ready" or Something Like "Keep Watch" for His Return --- - Not all of the verses listed below say "[[Be_Ready|be ready]]". However, they DO explicitly communicate that we are to be ready for Jesus' return - All of these verses are quotes from Jesus, i.e. they are in red in many Bibles --- - [[Matthew_24|Matthew 24.42]] - Key Verse - Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. --- - [[Matthew_24|Matthew 24.44]] - Key Verse - For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect. --- - [[Matthew_25|Matthew 25.13]] - Key Verse - Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. --- - [[Luke_12|Luke 12.35]] - Key Verse - Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. --- - [[Luke_12|Luke 12.40]] - Key Verse - You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.” --- - [[Luke_21|Luke 21.36]] - Key Verse - So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man. --- - [[Revelation_03|Revelation 3.3]] - Key Verse - Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you. --- - [[Revelation_16|Revelation 16.15]] - Key Verse - Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed. --- - [[Revelation_22|Revelation 22.20]] - He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!