Slowness (1 Occurrence)

Slowness

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2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Thesaurus

Slowness (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality or state of being slow.
Multi-Version Concordance Slowness (1 Occurrence). 2 Peter 3:9 ...
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Sluggard (14 Occurrences)

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Slowly (7 Occurrences)

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Longsuffering (17 Occurrences)
... It is attributed to God (Romans 2:4; Romans 9:22 2 Peter 3:9), of His bearing
long with sinners and slowness to execute judgment on them. ...
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Wanting (27 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness;
but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all ...
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Fulfilling (14 Occurrences)
... well. (See NAS). 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise,
in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But ...
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Forbearing (10 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 3:9 the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness,
but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to ...
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Tedious (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
slowness, or the like; wearisome. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Dullness (1 Occurrence)
... (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness;
obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. ...
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Drag (19 Occurrences)
... 16. (vt) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
17. (vt) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. 18. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality or state of being slow.

Greek

1022. bradutes -- slowness
... slowness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: bradutes Phonetic Spelling:
(brad-oo'-tace) Short Definition: tardiness, slowness Definition: tardiness ...
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Library

Whether the Bodies of the Damned Will Rise Again with their ...
... But such are their deformities. Therefore, etc. Objection 3: Further, just as deformity
is a defect of the passible body, so is slowness of movement. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the bodies of the 2.htm

The Patient Teacher, and the Slow Scholars
... unusual"perhaps I may say unique"hail of questions which indicate how deeply moved
from His ordinary calm He was by this strange slowness of apprehension ...
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A Calm Evening, Promising a Bright Morning
... How much happiness they had lost by their slowness to believe in Joseph's
love! Is there nothing like this in our thoughts of God? ...
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(On the Lord's Ascension, I. )
... Let us give thanks to the Divine management and the holy Fathers' necessary slowness
of belief. Others doubted, that we might not doubt. II. ...
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Whether Negligence is Opposed to Prudence?
... Reply to Objection 1: Negligence is a defect in the internal act, to which choice
also belongs: whereas idleness and laziness denote slowness of execution, yet ...
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Whether Precipitation is a Sin Included in Imprudence?
... vi, 9. Therefore there is no reason for reckoning precipitation as a sin contained
under imprudence, rather than slowness, or something else of the kind ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether precipitation is a sin.htm

Christ's Lament Over Our Faithlessness
... and the converse with their unworthy successors"made Christ feel more sharply and
poignantly than He ordinarily did His disciples' slowness of apprehension ...
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A Coffin in Egypt
... their ideals realised, forget that 'raw haste' is 'half-sister to delay' and are
indignant with man for his sluggishness and with God for His majestic slowness ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/a coffin in egypt.htm

Christian Perfection
... Such are the weakness or slowness of understanding, dulness or confusedness of
apprehension, incoherency of thought, irregular quickness or heaviness of ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 40 christian perfection.htm

Requiting God
... It is a cup of salvations, however hard it is sometimes to believe it. Of how much
blessing and happiness we all rob ourselves by our slowness to feel that! ...
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Subtopics

Slowness

Related Terms

Sluggard (14 Occurrences)

Slowly (7 Occurrences)

Longsuffering (17 Occurrences)

Wanting (27 Occurrences)

Fulfilling (14 Occurrences)

Forbearing (10 Occurrences)

Tedious (1 Occurrence)

Dullness (1 Occurrence)

Drag (19 Occurrences)