"Chapter 38—Our College The education and training of the youth is an important and solemn work. The great object to be secured should be the proper development of character, that the individual may be fitted rightly to discharge the duties of the present life and to enter at last upon the future, immortal life. Eternity will reveal the manner in which the work has been performed. If ministers and teachers could have a full sense of their responsibility, we should see a different state of things in the world today. But they are too narrow in their views and purposes. They do not realize the importance of their work or its results. 4T 418"
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
EGW's emphasis on the education and training of youth for both present and future life directly echoes the principle of Proverbs 22:6, which speaks of training a child in the way they should go.
"God could not do more for man than He has done in giving His beloved Son, nor could He do less and yet secure the redemption of man and maintain the dignity of the divine law. He poured out in our behalf the whole treasure of heaven; for in giving His Son He threw open to us the golden gates of heaven, making one infinite gift to those who shall accept the sacrifice and return to their allegiance to God. Christ came to our world with love as broad as eternity in His heart, offering to make man heir of all His riches and glory. In this act He unveiled to man the character of His Father, showing to every human being that God can be just and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. 4T 418.2"
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
The EGW passage explicitly references God giving His Son and the implications of that act for salvation, mirroring the core message of John 3:16.
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Both passages emphasize God's immense gift of His Son and the promise of receiving 'all things' as a result. EGW expands on the implications of this gift, aligning with the sentiment in Romans 8:32.