'Slow' in the Bible

And will not God avenge the wrongs of His own People who cry aloud to Him day and night, although He seems slow in taking action on their behalf?

"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.

You know this, my dearly-loved brethren. But let every one be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to be angry.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.