20 Bible Verses about Answering People

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word.

O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."

I will answer you and your friends with you.

And the people answered him in the same way, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.

Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean."

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

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."

They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"

Ephron answered Abraham

Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself,

And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.

The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now

When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel,