28 Bible Verses about taxes

For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's ministers, attending to this very thing.

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were amazed at him.

And he said to them, "Collect no more than is appointed you."

Pay all of them their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Show me the money for the tax." And they brought him a denarius.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.

And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's."

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

He said, "Yes." And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from others?"

After this he went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me."

And when Peter said, "From others," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.

(And when they heard him, all the people, even the tax collectors, justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

When they came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care about no man; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, "Does not your teacher pay the temple tax?"

And he said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?"

Nevertheless, so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you open its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for me and you."

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.

And he left everything, rose up and followed him.

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

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

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.