Mark 12:17
Good News Translation
So Jesus said, "Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God." And they were amazed at Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to them, “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus told them, "Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God." The men were amazed at Jesus.

New American Bible
So Jesus said to them, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” They were utterly amazed at him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

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And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

Render.

Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Matthew 17:25-27 And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free. . . .

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

and to.

Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it. . . .

Malachi 1:6 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Acts 4:19,20 But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye. . . .

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

1 Corinthians 6:19,20 Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own? . . .

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

And they.

Job 5:12,13 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: . . .

Matthew 22:22,33,46 And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:24,25 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all. . . .

Context
Paying Taxes to Caesar
16And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. 17And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him. 18And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection. And they asked him, saying:…
Cross References
Matthew 8:10
And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel.

Matthew 22:21
They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

Mark 12:16
And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's.

Luke 20:25
And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things, that are Caesar's: and to God the things that are God's.

Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

Mark 12:16
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