“All that is good comes from God, and all that is evil comes from the devil (Alma 5:40) is also a New Testament doctrine. The Apostle James taught: ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning’ (James 1:17). The concepts that good works come from following the good shepherd and evil works come from following the devil (Alma 5:41), and that we receive wages from whom we follow, were taught in the previous chapter of Alma (see Alma 4:26–27)” (Nyman, Record of Alma, 66).