30 Bible Verses about taxes

For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

Is it lawful for us to give tribute 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 marveled at him.

And he said to them, "Collect no more than you are authorized to do."

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

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

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

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 kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?"

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

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

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just,having been baptized with the baptism of John,

And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"

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

And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?"

However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

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

"Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.

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 prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.

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

And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and 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 into 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;

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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