Readings for Celebrating Advent

⁵ Now he that has made us for this same thing is God, who has likewise given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home 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 willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.