"When you place a useless or extravagant article of clothing upon your person, you are withholding from the naked. When you spread your tables with a needless variety of costly food, you are neglecting to feed the hungry. How stands your record, professed Christian? Do not, I beseech you, lay out in foolish and hurtful indulgences that which God requires in His treasury, and the portion which should be given to the poor. Let us not clothe ourselves with costly apparel, but, like women professing godliness, with good works. Let not the cry of the widow and the fatherless go up to heaven against us. Let not the blood of souls be found on our garments. Let not precious probationary time be squandered in cherishing pride of heart. Are there no poor to be visited? no dim eyes for whom you can read the word of God? no desponding, discouraged ones that need your words of comfort and your prayers? 4T 646.2"
"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works."
EGW's statement about women adorning themselves with good works instead of costly apparel is a clear application of the principle outlined in 1 Timothy 2:9-10. The connection is strong and directly related to the biblical text.
"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:"
The EGW passage directly echoes the sentiment of Matthew 25:42, focusing on the neglect of the hungry and needy due to extravagance. The connection is clear and meaningful.
"hurtful lusts, groveling appetites, becloud your sense of sacred things. Why will not everyone who professes to love Jesus flee from these soul-destroying indulgences! The world is crazy after show and fashion and pleasure. Licentiousness is steadily and fearfully on the increase. Why will not Christians be true to their high profession! 4T 646.3"
"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"
Both passages address the need to abstain from fleshly lusts and indulgences. EGW's statement about 'hurtful lusts' and 'soul-destroying indulgences' aligns with the warning in 1 Peter 2:11 about 'fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.'
"But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."
EGW's call to flee from 'soul-destroying indulgences' and the world's focus on 'show and fashion' parallels Paul's instruction in Romans 13:14 to 'make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.' Both passages encourage a focus on spiritual matters rather than worldly desires.