"The work of health reform is the Lord's means for lessening suffering in our world and for purifying His church. Teach the people that they can act as God's helping hand, by co-operating with the Master-worker in restoring physical and spiritual health. This work bears the signature of Heaven, and will open doors for the entrance of other precious truths. There is room for all to labor who will take hold of this work intelligently. GW 348.1"
"For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building."
The EGW passage emphasizes cooperation with God in restoring health, echoing the sentiment in 1 Corinthians 3:9 that believers are laborers together with God.
"Keep the work of health reform to the front, is the message I am instructed to bear. Show so plainly its value that a wide-spread need for it will be felt. Abstinence from all hurtful food and drink is the fruit of true religion. He who is thoroughly converted will abandon every injurious habit and appetite. By total abstinence he will overcome his desire for health-destroying indulgences.... GW 348.2"
"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? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
The EGW passage directly connects health reform and abstinence with glorifying God through one's body, which aligns with the principle in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and should be used to glorify God.