'Long' in the Bible

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder,

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,