Paying Money You Owe

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing. — read the full passage →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. — read the full passage →

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. — read the full passage →

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — read the full passage →

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?” — read the full passage →

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. — read the full passage →

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”