20 Bible Verses about Answering People

but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things:

And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one thing, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

And the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me; for I confide in thy word.

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteousness of Jehovah.

I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

And the people told him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that smites him.

And he turned from him to another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And Haggai said, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, is it become unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.

And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,

And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of: there was not a thing hidden from the king that he did not explain to her.

The king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and the other places beyond the river: Peace, and so forth.

But as he said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave a blow on the face to Jesus, saying, Answerest thou the high priest thus?

and the earth shall hear the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jizreel.