In Chapter 9, Alma also emphasized that people who have a greater knowledge will be held to a higher standard (9:15–18, 24), and thus the strict warning against the people of Ammonihah was justified. On the other hand, of the Lamanites he says, in effect, "It will go better for the Lamanites than for you people, because you know better and you will be held accountable." This is the clearest lesson that the Book of Mormon ever gives on this particular subject. In the New Testament, 2 Peter 2:21 likewise teaches, speaking of false prophets and false teachers among the early Christians, "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." We see this as a reality in the lives of people who have apostatized, especially those who had been overzealous. When they turn away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they often turn away with a vengeance, as Peter points out had happened to the "angels that sinned," to Sodom and Gomorrah, and those "following the way of Balaam" (2 Peter 2:4, 6, 15).