30 Bible Verses about taxes

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.

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

So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

So Jesus told them, "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

He told them, "Stop collecting more money than the amount you are told to collect."

Pay everyone whatever you owe them taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Show me the coin used for the tax."

Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.

So they brought one. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name are on this?" They told him, "Caesar's."

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

He answered, "Yes." When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects, or from foreigners?"

After that, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax collector's desk. He told him, "Follow me!"

"From foreigners," he replied.

By having been baptized with John's baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice.

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came up to Peter and asked, "Your teacher pays the temple tax, doesn't he?"

They brought him a denarius. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name is this?"

So Jesus told him, "In that case, the subjects are exempt. However, so that we don't offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth, and you will find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you."

If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?

His successor will send out a tax collector for royal splendor, but in a short period of time he'll be shattered, though neither in anger nor in battle.'"

Which of the two did the father's will?" They answered, "The first one."

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's desk and told him, "Follow me." So he got up and followed him.

So Levi left everything behind, got up, and followed him.

They began to accuse him, "We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king."

The Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of my entire income.'

"Two men went up to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

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

"Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink

Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.