28 Bible Verses about taxes
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just as you pay your taxes; they are God's ministers, devoting themselves to this service.
He said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"
And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him.
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"Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius.
In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
And they brought him one. He said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" And they told him, "The emperor's."
But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'
He said, "Yes." But when he went home, Jesus spoke of it first and said, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect duties and taxes? From their own people, or from aliens?"
After this he went out, and he saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!"
He said, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "Then their own people are exempt.
And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,
And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?
When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"
But rather than give offense to them, go down to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take that and pay the tax for us both."
For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?
Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.
Afterward, as Jesus was passing along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he got up and followed him.
and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."
And the Pharisees observed it, and they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"
"Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector.
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector, James the son of Alpheus and Thaddeus,
All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him.
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When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"
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When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"
just as you pay your taxes; they are God's ministers, devoting themselves to this service.
So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?"