'Temporary' in the Bible
“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.
“If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.
Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
“If a foreigner or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner living among you, or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
When they were few in number,very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan
When they were few in number,very few indeed,and temporary residents in Canaan,
So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:To the temporary residents dispersed in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
And if you address as Father the One who judges impartially based on each one’s work, you are to conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your temporary residence.
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.