20 Bible Verses about Answering People
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But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."
He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.
Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."
What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.
[Then] sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.
When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"
and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.