"Where wrong habits of diet have been indulged, there should be no delay in reform. When dyspepsia has resulted from abuse of the stomach, efforts should be made carefully to preserve the remaining strength of the vital forces by removing every overtaxing burden. The stomach may never entirely recover health after long abuse; but a proper course of diet will save further debility, and many will recover more or less fully. It is not easy to prescribe rules that will meet every case; but, with attention to right principles in eating, great reforms may be made, and the cook need not be continually toiling to tempt the appetite. MH 308.1"
"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? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
The EGW passage discusses the importance of dietary reform and caring for the body, which aligns with the principle in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and should be treated with respect. It's about glorifying God through proper care of our physical health.
"Abstemiousness in diet is rewarded with mental and moral vigor; it also aids in the control of the passions. Overeating is especially harmful to those who are sluggish in temperament; these should eat sparingly and take plenty of physical exercise. There are men and women of excellent natural ability who do not accomplish half what they might if they would exercise self-control in the denial of appetite. MH 308.2"
"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
The EGW passage directly echoes the principle of abstemiousness leading to health and self-control, while overeating leads to negative consequences, as described in Proverbs 23:20-21.
"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."
Both passages emphasize the importance of temperance and self-control, particularly in relation to physical desires and appetites. The EGW passage focuses on diet, while the verse in 1 Corinthians speaks more broadly about temperance in all things.