Step One
We admitted we were powerless over
our addictions and compulsive behaviours, that our lives had become
unmanageable.
Romans 7:18 NIV
Step Two
We came to believe that a power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Phillipians 2:13 NIV
Step Three
We made a decision to turn our
lives and our wills over to the care of God.
Romans 12:1 NIV
Step Four
We made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
Lamentations 3:40 NIV
Step Five
We admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
James 5:16a NIV
Step Six
We were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of character.
James 4:10 NIV
Step Seven
We humbly asked Him to remove all
our shortcomings.
1 John 1:9 NIV
Step Eight
We
made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to
them all.
Luke 6:31 NIV
Step Nine
We made direct amends to such
people whenever possible, expect when to do so would injure them or others.
Matthew 5:23-24 NIV
Step Ten
We continue to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Step Eleven
We sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
Colossians 3:16a NIV
Step Twelve
Having
had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this
message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Galatians 6:1 NIV