"You have been controlled by feeling, not by duty and principle. You have given up to homesick feelings and injured your health by indulging a spirit of unrest. Your habits of life are not healthful. You need to reform. Neither of you is willing to work as others work, or to eat as your brethren eat. If it is in your power to get things, you have them. It is your duty to economize. 2T 435.1"
"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."
The EGW passage discusses being controlled by feelings and indulging in unhealthy habits, which contrasts with Galatians 5:16's call to 'walk in the Spirit' and not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
"In contrast with your case was presented that of Sister S. She is in feeble health, and has two children to support with her needle at the very low prices which are paid for her work. For years she received scarcely a farthing of help. She suffered with ill health, yet she carried her own burdens. Here was an object of charity indeed. Now look at your case. A man with a small family and a good capital of strength, yet constantly involved in debt and leaning upon others. This is all wrong. You have lessons to learn. With Sister S, economy is the battle of life. Here you are with a man's strong energies, and yet are not self-sustaining. You have a work to do. You should have uniformity of diet. Live at all times as simply as your brethren live. Live out the health reform. 2T 435.2"
"For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:"
Both passages address the concept of equality and sharing resources, with the EGW passage illustrating this through the contrast between Sister S and the addressed individual.
"Jesus wrought a miracle and fed five thousand, and then He taught an important lesson of economy: “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” Duties, important duties, rest upon you. “Owe no man anything.” Were you infirm, were you unable to labor, then your brethren would be in duty bound to help you. As it is, all you needed from your brethren when you changed your location was a start. If you felt as ambitious as you should, and you and your wife would agree to live within your means, you could be free from embarrassment. You will have to labor for small wages as well as for large. Industry and economy would have placed your family, ere this, in a much more favorable condition. God wants you to be a faithful steward of your strength. He wants you to use it to place your family above want and dependence. 2T 435.3"
"When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."
The EGW passage directly quotes John 6:12 and uses the example of Jesus's miracle to emphasize the importance of economy and avoiding waste.
"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
The EGW passage directly quotes Romans 13:8.