Jacob describes a stage of spiritual progression beyond the recognition of the difference between righteousness and sin. In this stage, sin becomes, not tempting, but loathsome. Jacob has reached this point. Around four hundred years later, King Benjamin’s people, after an outpouring of the Spirit, will find themselves in the same condition: “And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually” (Mosiah 5:2).