Colossians 3:1-17

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you once walked, when you lived in them.

Today's Gospel reading is Matthew 4:18-25

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⁸ As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen.

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He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men."

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⁹ At once they left their nets and followed him.

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He walked along from there and saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them,

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and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him.

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¹⁰ He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ¹¹ proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people.

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¹² His fame spread to all of Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and racked with pain, those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them.

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And great crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, ¹³ Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.