Readings for Celebrating Advent

⁵ And He Who has created us for this thing, is God; Who also has given us the earnest portion of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore we are always bold; although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

⁷ For we walk by faith, and not by sight.

⁸ Nevertheless, we are bold, and are well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.