Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

-- Mark 12:13-17

We Give Thee but Thine Own

We give thee but thine own, what-e’re the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.

May we thy bounties thus as stewards true receive,
And gladly, as thou blessest us, to thee our first-fruits give.

The captive to release, to God the lost to bring,
To teach the way of life and peace: it is a Christ-like thing.

And we believe thy word, though dim our faith may be;
What-e’re we do for thine, O Lord, we do it unto thee.

-- William Walsham How, c.1858.
Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, No. 708