20 Bible Verses about Answering People

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to respond to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence,

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

And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you a word, which if ye tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

Then Jesus, answering, said unto them, I will also ask of you one word, and respond unto me, and I will tell you with what faculty I do these things.

Then the king answered and said unto 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.

And I shall answer him that reproaches me, by saying that I trust in thy word.

O 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 the LORD.

I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.

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

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

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

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

What shall one then answer the messengers of the Gentiles? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people shall have confidence.

And they said, The man asked us expressly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

Her wise princesses answered her; and she even answered to herself,

And Solomon told her all her questions; there was not any thing hid from the king, which he did not tell her.

The king sent this answer unto Rehum, the chancellor, and to Shimshai, the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria and to the rest of those of the other side of the river and to Cheenet.

And when he had thus spoken, one of the servants who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?

and the earth shall respond to the wheat and the wine and the oil; and they shall respond to Jezreel.