30 Bible Verses about taxes
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For this same reason you pay taxes, for civil authorities are God’s servants, devoting themselves to governance.
Is it lawful [according to Jewish law and tradition] for us to pay taxes (tribute money) to Caesar or not?”
He said to them, “Then pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Jesus said to them, “Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were greatly amazed at Him.
And he told them, “Collect no more than the fixed amount you have been ordered to [collect].”
Pay to all what is due: tax to whom tax is due, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor.
Show me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius [a day’s wage].
Now in those days a decree went out from [the emperor] Caesar Augustus, that all the inhabited world (the Roman Empire) should be registered [in a census].
So they brought one. Then He asked them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but was striking his chest [in humility and repentance], saying, ‘God, be merciful and gracious to me, the [especially wicked] sinner [that I am]!’
Peter answered, “Yes.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly rulers collect duties or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”
After this Jesus went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi (Matthew) sitting at the tax booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me [as My disciple, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk].”
When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt [from taxation].
All the people and the tax collectors who heard Jesus, acknowledged [the validity of] God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
They came and said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and have no personal bias toward anyone; for You are not influenced by outward appearances or social status, but in truth You teach the way of God. Is it lawful [according to Jewish law and tradition] to pay the poll-tax to [Tiberius] Caesar, or not?
When they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel [temple tax] went up to Peter and said, “Does not your teacher pay the half-shekel?”
However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them [to pay the temple tax] for you and Me.”
For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?
“Then in his place one (his eldest son, Seleucus IV Philopator) will arise who will send an oppressor through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.
Which of the two did the will of the father?” The chief priests and elders replied, “The first one.” Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew (Levi) sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me [as My disciple, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk].” And Matthew got up and followed Him.
And he left everything behind and got up and began to follow Jesus [as His disciple].
They began to accuse Jesus, asserting, “We found this Man misleading and perverting our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and claiming that He Himself is Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), a King.”
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
“Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Philip and Bartholomew (Nathanael); Thomas and Matthew (Levi) the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas, not Iscariot);
Therefore, because you impose heavy rent on the poor
And demand a tribute (food-tax) of grain from them,
Though you have built [luxurious] houses of square stone,
You will not live in them;
You have planted beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.
Now all the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.
From Thematic Bible
King » Taxes
Adoram was over the forced labor; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
Then King Rehoboam sent
Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.
Taxes » Examples of
When they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money as Pharaoh commanded. He collected the silver and gold from the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt—valid to this
Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers and officials over the land, and set aside one-fifth [of the produce] of the [entire] land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
Taxes » General references to
Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.
When they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the
For this same reason you pay taxes, for civil authorities are God’s servants, devoting themselves to governance.
King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) imposed a tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
Tell us then, what do You think? Is it permissible [according to Jewish law and tradition] to pay a
