"Intemperance in eating, even of food of the right quality, will have a prostrating influence upon the system and will blunt the keener and holier emotions. Strict temperance in eating and drinking is highly essential for the healthy preservation and vigorous exercise of all the functions of the body. Strictly temperate habits, combined with exercise of the muscles as well as of the mind, will preserve both mental and physical vigor, and give power of endurance to those engaged in the ministry, to editors, and to all others whose habits are sedentary. As a people, with all our profession of health reform, we eat too much. Indulgence of appetite is the greatest cause of physical and mental debility, and lies at the foundation of the feebleness which is apparent everywhere. 3T 487.1"
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
The EGW passage emphasizes the importance of temperance and its impact on physical and mental health, which aligns with the concept of the body being a temple of the Holy Spirit, as stated in 1 Corinthians 6:19. Both passages highlight the need to care for one's body.
"more debilitated the system becomes and the less able to do without unnatural stimulus, the more the passion for these things increases, until the will is overborne, and there seems to be no power to deny the unnatural craving for these indulgences. 3T 487.2"
"For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I."
The EGW passage describes the loss of control over desires and the inability to resist cravings, which parallels the struggle described in Romans 7:15, where the apostle Paul expresses the conflict between his will and his actions. Both passages address the power of temptation and the difficulty of overcoming it.