5. There is a zeal and devotion that attends true repentance. “I have labored without ceasing,” Alma said (verse 24). Paul, Alma’s Old World counterpart, said it in this way: “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10).