Top 30 Bible Verses about Preparing for Jesus’ Return

Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.

Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

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

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’

But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

You may not be able to see the end of the road, but you must be ready to walk it.

Prepare your heart for the return of the Lord; for in that day it shall be a day of great rejoicing for those who are ready.

And when he returns, will you be found ready and waiting?

What if we lived each day in light of His return?

The anticipation of Jesus' return should shape our daily lives and priorities.