This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God's servants, who devote themselves to their work.
Cross References
Romans 13:5Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.
Romans 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Treasury of Scripture
For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually on this very thing.
pay.
Ezra 4:13,20
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings…
Ezra 6:8
Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expences be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
Nehemiah 5:4
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
attending.
Romans 12:8
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Exodus 18:13-27
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening…
Deuteronomy 1:9-17
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: …
