Keep clear of the boys. In their society your temptations become earnest and powerful. Put marriage out of your girl's head. You are in no sense fit for this. You need years of experience before you can be qualified to understand the duties, and take up the burdens, of married life. Positively guard your thoughts, your passions, and your affections. Do not degrade these to minister to lust. Elevate them to purity, devote them to God. 2T 564.1 You may become a prudent, modest, virtuous girl, but not without earnest effort. You must watch, you must pray, you must meditate, you must investigate your motives and your actions. Closely analyze your feelings and your acts. Would you, in the presence of your father, perform an impure action? No, indeed. But you do this in the presence of your heavenly Father, who is so much more exalted, so holy, so pure. Yes; you corrupt your own body in the presence of the pure, sinless angels, and in the presence of Christ; and you continue to do this irres…
"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"
Both passages directly address abstaining from fleshly lusts. EGW expands on the implications and practical application of this principle.
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."
Both passages address sexual immorality and its impact on the individual. EGW's passage speaks to guarding thoughts and affections to avoid lust, while 1 Corinthians 6:18 directly warns against fornication as a sin against one's own body.
"Again I warn you as one who must meet these lines in that day when the case of everyone shall be decided. Yield yourself to Christ without delay; He alone, by the power of His grace, can redeem you from ruin. He alone can bring your moral and mental powers into a state of health. Your heart may be warm with the love of God; your understanding, clear and mature; your conscience, illuminated, quick, and pure; your will, upright and sanctified, subject to the control of the Spirit of God. You can make yourself what you choose. If you will now face rightabout, cease to do evil and learn to do well, then you will be happy indeed; you will be successful in the battles of life, and rise to glory and honor in the better life than this. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” 2T 564.4"
"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin."
Both passages emphasize the importance of repentance and turning away from sin to avoid ruin. EGW's passage uses the phrase "Choose you this day whom ye will serve," while Ezekiel 18:30 calls for repentance to avoid iniquity.
"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
Both passages urge the reader to cease doing evil and learn to do well. Isaiah 1:16-17 provides specific examples of good deeds, while EGW's passage focuses on yielding to Christ and developing moral and mental health.