"And fathers as well as mothers are involved in this responsibility. Both parents transmit their own characteristics, mental and physical, their dispositions and appetites, to their child. As the result of parental intemperance, children often lack physical strength and mental and moral power. Liquor-drinkers and tobacco- users may, and do, transmit their insatiable craving, their inflamed blood and irritable nerves, to their children. The licentious often bequeath their unholy desires, and even loathsome diseases, as a legacy to their offspring. And as the children have less power to resist temptation than had the parents, the tendency is for each generation to fall lower and lower. To a great degree, parents are responsible, not only for the violent passions and perverted appetites of their children, but for the infirmities of the thousands born deaf, blind, diseased, or idiotic. CE 233.1"
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
EGW's statement about parental influence and the consequences of intemperance aligns with the principle of sowing and reaping in Galatians 6:7. The idea that actions have consequences, especially in the context of parental influence, is a clear parallel.
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
EGW's statement about parents transmitting negative traits to their children echoes the principle in Exodus 20:5 about the iniquity of the fathers being visited upon the children. While not a direct quote, the thematic connection is strong.
"The inquiry of every father and mother should be, “What shall we do unto the child that shall be born unto us?” [ Judges 13:8 .] The effect of pre-natal influences has been by many lightly regarded; but the instruction sent from heaven to those Hebrew parents, and twice repeated in the most explicit and solemn manner, shows how this matter is looked upon by our Creator. CE 233.2"
"Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born."
Ellen White directly references Judges 13:8 in this passage.
"And it was not enough that the promised child should receive a good legacy from the parents. This must be followed by careful training, and the formation of right habits. God directed that the future judge and deliverer of Israel should be trained to strict temperance from infancy. He was to be a Nazarite from his birth, thus being placed under a perpetual prohibition against the use of wine or strong drink. The lessons of temperance, self- denial, and self-control, are to be taught to children even from babyhood.— Patriarchs and Prophets, 561, 562 . CE 233.3"
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
While the EGW passage uses the example of Samson's training, the underlying principle is that children should be trained from a young age, which aligns with the teaching of Proverbs 22:6.
"Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded."
Both passages encourage sober-mindedness, particularly in young people. While the EGW passage focuses on temperance in childhood, and Titus 2:6 addresses young men, the underlying principle of self-control and moderation connects them.