'Temporary' in the Bible

and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

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.

and hold His office not in obedience to any temporary Law, but by virtue of an indestructible Life.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

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.

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;

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.