20 Bible Verses about Answering People

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

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

And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

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

So shall I have an answer for him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.

O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that kills 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 said Haggai, If one that is unclean because of 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 nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

And they said, The man asked us carefully of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have you another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any way know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

And Solomon answered her all her questions: there was not anything hid from the king, which he told her not.

Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the commander, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and so forth.

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

And the earth shall answer with grain, and wine, and oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.