Readings for Celebrating Advent

⁵ Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit. ⁶ Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by ^[a]sight); ⁸ we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.