Readings for Celebrating Advent

⁵ Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

⁸ we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.