Mal 3:1, Luk 9:52, 14:31-32 | ESV | STEP | Behold , I send my messenger , and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple ; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight , behold , he is coming , says the Lord of hosts .

Malachi 3:1

1 ^a“Behold, I send ^bmy messenger, and ^che will prepare the way before me. And the Lord ^dwhom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and ^ethe messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 9:52

52 And ^fhe sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of ^gthe Samaritans, to make preparations for him.

Luke 14:31-32

31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not ^hsit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.