[Intro] To the twelve tribes scattered abroad: greeting from a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. [Verse 1] When many-colored trials surround you, count the testing as a forge for faith. Patience must finish what pressure began, till nothing required is missing from the work. [Chorus] Let patience have her perfect work. Let the trial spend its force. Ask wisdom from the giving God, then stand in faith while the wave runs its course. [Verse 2] Desire draws away, conceives, and brings forth death; temptation does not descend from God. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, unchanged by shadow. [Bridge] Swift to hear. Slow to speak. Slow to wrath. Receive the engrafted word with meekness. [Verse 3] Do not glance at truth like a face in a mirror and forget it when you turn away. Look into the perfect law of liberty; be a doer, and be blessed in the deed. [Refrain] Remember the word after the mirror is gone; let obedience carry the blessing onward. [Outro] Bridle the tongue. Visit the orphan and widow in affliction. Keep unspotted from the world. Let patience finish the work.