28 Bible Verses about taxes

This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.

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

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

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

And he said to them, "Exact no more than the sum allowed you."

Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due.

"Hypocrites! Why are you tempting me? Show me the tribute money." So they brought him a shilling.

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

And they brought it. "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they answered.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

"Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes??rom their own people, or from aliens?"

After this he went forth and noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

And when he replied, "From aliens," Jesus said: "Then their people go free.

On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?

As they came into Capernaum the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does not your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

"Whose likeness and inscription is this?" he asked.

"Nevertheless, that we may not give offense, go to the seaside, throw in your hook; take the first fish that rises, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel in it. Take it and give it to them for us both."

"For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you?

"Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!

As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

He rose, left everything, and followed him.

and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

"'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew, the tax-gatherer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname is Thaddeus;

Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.