20 Bible Verses about Answering People

but set Christ apart [as] Lord in your hearts, always ready to [make] a defense to anyone who asks you [for] an accounting concerning the hope [that is] in you.

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "I also will ask you one question. If you tell [the answer] to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

So Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

The king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not withhold from me a thing which I [am] about to ask you." The woman said, "Please let my lord the king speak."

Then I will have an answer [for the] one who taunts me, for I trust your word.

O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and [what happened from] Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh."

I myself {will give answer to you} and [to] your friends with you.

And the troops had spoken to him according to this word, saying, "So it will be done for the man who defeats him."

He turned around from him to another opposite [him] and {he spoke to him in the same way}, and the people {answered him as before}.

Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean from contact with a corpse touches any of these, will it become unclean?" The priests answered, "Yes, it will be become unclean."

And all who heard him were amazed at his insight and [his] answers.

And what will one answer [the] messengers of [the] nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.

And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring down your brother'?"

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him

The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself:

{Solomon answered all of her questions}; there was not a thing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.

The king sent a reply: "To Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and the rest [of the province] Beyond the River, greetings. And now

Now [when] he had said these [things], one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, "Do you reply to the high priest in this way?"

And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.