Readings for Celebrating Advent

⁵ Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. ⁶ Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst 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.