And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s servants, continually attending to these tasks.

你们纳粮，也为这个缘故；因他们是神的差役，常常特管这事。

你们纳粮也为这个缘故，因他们是上帝的仆役，专管这事。

你们纳粮也为这个缘故，因他们是神的仆役，专管这事。

你们纳税也是为了同样的缘故，因为官长是上帝的仆人，负责管理这类事务。

因此，你们也当纳税，因为他们是神的差役，专责处理这事的。

其实你们纳税，也是为了这缘故；因为他们是神的仆役，正是为此专心服事。

你們納糧，也為這個緣故；因他們是神的差役，常常特管這事。

你們納糧也為這個緣故，因他們是上帝的僕役，專管這事。

你們納糧也為這個緣故，因他們是神的僕役，專管這事。

你們納稅也是為了同樣的緣故，因為官長是上帝的僕人，負責管理這類事務。

因此，你們也當納稅，因為他們是神的差役，專責處理這事的。

你們納貢銀、也是為了這個緣故，因為他們是上帝的差役，時常專務的正是這事。

其實你們納稅，也是為了這緣故；因為他們是神的僕役，正是為此專心服事。

是以爾亦輸稅、蓋彼乃上帝之有司、恆執斯役、

是宜輸稅、居位者上帝之執事、恆執斯役、

爾曹納稅、亦為是故、蓋秉權者、乃天主之役、常理此事、

因是亦不可不輸稅；蓋彼既為天主之有司、課稅亦為其所掌也。

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.

That’s also why you pay taxes. The authorities serve God. Ruling takes up all their time.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

Pay your taxes, too, for these same reasons. For government workers need to be paid. They are serving God in what they do.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing.

For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

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

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

So David reigned over all Israel, administering justice and righteousness for all his people.

They questioned him,“ Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and you don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God.Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”But detecting their craftiness, he said to them,“ Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”“ Caesar’s,” they said.“ Well then,” he told them,“ give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”They were not able to catch him in what he said in public, and being amazed at his answer, they became silent.

Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”Perceiving their malicious intent, Jesus said,“ Why are you testing me, hypocrites?Show me the coin used for the tax.” They brought him a denarius.“ Whose image and inscription is this?” he asked them.“ Caesar’s,” they said to him. Then he said to them,“ Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

When they came, they said to him,“ Teacher, we know you are truthful and don’t care what anyone thinks, nor do you show partiality but teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them,“ Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.”They brought a coin.“ Whose image and inscription is this?” he asked them.“ Caesar’s,” they replied.Jesus told 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.

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the temple tax approached Peter and said,“ Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”“ Yes,” he said. When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,“ What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes? From their sons or from strangers?”“ From strangers,” he said.“ Then the sons are free,” Jesus told him.“ But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you.”

I hereby issue a decree concerning what you are to do, so that the elders of the Jews can rebuild the house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men out of the royal revenues from the taxes of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that the work will not stop.

Every year he would go on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah and would judge Israel at all these locations.Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, he judged Israel there, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, duty, or land tax, and the royal revenue will suffer.

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.When Moses’s father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked,“ What is this you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”Moses replied to his father-in-law,“ Because the people come to me to inquire of God.Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God’s statutes and laws.”“ What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’s father-in-law said to him.“ You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone.Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to him.Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every major case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you.If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.Moses let his father-in-law go, and he journeyed to his own land.

Powerful kings have also ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the Euphrates River, and tribute, duty, and land tax were paid to them.

if exhorting, in exhortation; giving, with generosity; leading, with diligence; showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

They began to accuse him, saying,“ We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

When the Arameans of Damascus came to assist King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand Aramean men.

“ I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.The LORD your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.“ You replied to me,‘ What you propose to do is good.’“ So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: commanders for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or his resident alien.Do not show partiality when deciding a case; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

Still others were saying,“ We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.