1 Peter 1:13

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

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:

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.

And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon th...

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?