20 Bible Verses about Answering People

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will ask of you a certain question, which, if ye assoil me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I will also ask of you a certain thing, and answer ye 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 say on."

that I may give answer unto my blasphemers - for my trust is in thy word.

Remember, O my people, what Balak the king of Moab had imagined against thee, and what answer that Balaam the son of Beor gave him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the loving-kindness of the LORD.

Therefore will I give answer unto thee and thy friends.

And the people answered as it is rehearsed, saying, "So shall it be done to the man that beateth him."

And departed from by him into another front, and spake of the same manner, and the people answered him again, as before.

Then said Haggai, "Now if one being defiled with a dead carcass, touch any of these: shall it also be unclean?"

And all that heard him marveled at his wit and answers.

Who shall then maintain the messages of the Gentiles? But the LORD establisheth Zion, and the poor of my people shall put their trust in him.

And they said, "The man asked us of our kindred saying, 'Is your father yet alive? Have ye not another brother?' And we told him according to these words. How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with us?"

Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

The wisest of her ladies answered her: yea and she answered her own words herself,

And Solomon expounded her all her questions, that there was not one thing hid from the king which he expounded her not.

Then sent the king an answer, "Unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the others of their counsel that dwelt in Samaria, and unto others beyond the water: Peace and salutation.

When he had thus spoken, one of the ministers which stood by, smote Jesus on the face saying, "Answerest thou the high priest so?"

and the earth shall help the corn, wine, and oil, and they shall help Jezreel.