30 Bible Verses about taxes

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants devoted to governing.

Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?"

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

Then Jesus said to them, "Give 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, "Collect no more than you are required to."

Pay everyone what is owed: 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 coin used for the tax." So they brought him a denarius.

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.

So they brought one, and he said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" They replied, "Caesar's."

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

He said, "Yes." When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes -- from their sons or from foreigners?"

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

After he said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn't he?"

Jesus said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?"

But so that we don't offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you."

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

There will arise after him one who will send out an exactor of tribute to enhance the splendor of the kingdom, but after a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or battle.

Which of the two did his father's will?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

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 a tenth of everything 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;

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

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