30 Bible Verses about taxes

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

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

And He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

And 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 what you have been ordered to.”

Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.

They brought one. And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.”

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the 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 collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.”

When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged 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 defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”

And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”

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 that and give it to them for you and Me.”

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

“Then in his place one 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 his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?”

I fast twice a week; I pay 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 impose heavy rent on the poor
And exact a tribute of grain from them,
Though you have built houses of well-hewn stone,
Yet you will not live in them;
You have planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.