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 asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

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

And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise 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 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 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 killeth him.

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

Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch 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 hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

And they said, The man asked us straitly 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 ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

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

Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, 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 at such a time.

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

And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.