30 Bible Verses about taxes

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Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?

And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.

Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.

Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

And they gave him one. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? And they said to him, Caesar's.

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?

And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?

But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.

And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-farmer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

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King » Taxes

2 Samuel 20:24

And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

1 Kings 12:18

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 17:11

And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

Taxes » Examples of

Matthew 17:24

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

2 Kings 23:35

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.

Genesis 47:26

Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his.

Genesis 41:34

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

1 Samuel 8:15

He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

More verses: Nehemiah 5:4

Taxes » General references to

2 Chronicles 17:11

And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

Matthew 17:24

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

Esther 10:1

And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

Matthew 22:17

Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not?

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