Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
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Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
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Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
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Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
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Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
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Deuteronomy 17:15
you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Ezra 6:8
Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
Ezra 7:24
Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.
Matthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
Matthew 22:19
Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.
Matthew 22:20
He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”
Matthew 22:21
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Luke 20:22
Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
Acts 5:37
After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Romans 13:6
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
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Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
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Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
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Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
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Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
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Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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Ezekiel 18:13
has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.
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Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
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Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”
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Mark 12:14
When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
Mark 12:15
Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
Mark 12:16
They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
Mark 12:17
Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.
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Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
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