12-Steps

Step 1: admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Psalms 6:6-10; 34:17-18; 38:8; 42:7; Proverbs 28:26; Isaiah 38:12-13; Matthew 9:36; Romans 7:15-20; 1 Corinthians 8:2; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Deuteronomy 33:27; Job 6:8; Psalms 63:1; 91:1; Isaiah 41:10; 61:18; Jeremiah 30:17; Ezekiel 18:31; Mark 5:15; 9:23-24; 10:51-52; Luke 5:31; 15:17; John 3:16; Romans 8:38-39; 2 Corinthians 1:9; 3:5; Philippians 2:13; 4:19; Hebrews 11:6; 1 Peter 5:7

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Psalms 40:1-2; 78:38-39; 118:8--9; Proverbs 3:5-6; 16:3; 18:10; Isaiah 40:31; 55:1; Jeremiah 17:14; Lamentations 3:26; Matthew 4:18-22; 7:7; 11:28-30; Mark 12:30; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 2:12-13

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Psalm 4:4; Proverbs 27:1; Jeremiah 17:9-10; Lamentations 3:40; Joel 2:13; Micah 6:8; Matthew 26:41; John 14:1; 2 Corinthians 13:5-6; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:5-8; James 1:19-21; 3:14-16; 2 Peter 1 5-7; 1John 1:8-9

Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Psalms 32:3-5; 51:17; 55:22; Proverbs 18:24; 27:17; 28:13; Isaiah 44:22; Jeremiah 14:20; Daniel 9:4; Luke 15:18-19; Romans 3:23; 14:12; Ephesians 1:7-8; James 4:7-8; 5:16; 1 John 1:8-9; 2:1-2

Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Psalm 119:10-12; 139:23-24; Proverbs 3:24; Lamentations 3:19-22; Exekiel 36:25; John 15:7; Romans 6:11-12; Philippians 3:12-14; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; Hebrews 9:14; James 4:10; 1 Peter 1:13-14; 1 John 5:14

Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Psalm 25:8-11; 34:7; 51:1-2, 10-12; Isaiah 41:13; Ezekiel 36:25-26; Matthew 21:22; 23:12; Mark 11:24; Acts 3:19; Romans 4:20-21; 8:1-2, 31-32; James 4:6-8; 1 John 1:9; 5:15

Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Deuteronomy 31:6; Proverbs 25:9-10; Jeremiah 35:15; Matthew 6:14-15; ; 7:3-5; Mark 11:25; Luke 6:27-31; 37-38; 19:8; Romans 2:1; 15:1-3; Ephesians 4:32; 1 John 4:11-12

Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Leviticus 19:17-18; Proverbs 13:20; 18:24; Ezekiel 33:15-16; Matthew 5:23-26, 43-45; Luke 6:35-36; Romans 12:14-21; 13:8; 14:13; Ephesians 4:25-28; Philippians 2:3-4, 14-15; Colossians 3:12-13; 1 John 2:9-10; 4:19-21

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Psalms 19:12; 34:12; 139:23-24; Proverbs 14:29-30; 21:2; Ezekiel 33:14-16; Mark 14:38; Luke 6:27-31; 6:41-42; Romans 12:3; 1 Corinthians 10:12; 2 Corinthians 3:5; Ephesians 4:22-24; 5:15-16; James 1:23-25; 1 John 1:7; Jude 24-25

Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we undertood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Psalm 1:1-3; 16:7-8; 25:4-5; 37: 7. 9; 88:9; 119:105-106; Proverbs 3:5-6; 16:20; Isaiah 26:3-4; 30:21; Lamentations 3:25-26; Hosea 6:3; Matthew 6:6, 9-13; 7:7; 21:22; 26:39; Mark 11:24; Luke 11;9-10; Romans 8:26; Philippians 4:6; Colossians 1:10; 3:16

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Psalm 71:15-18; 78:1-8; 96; Ecclesiastes 4:5-11; Isaiah 38:10-20; Matthew 25:40; 28:19-20; Mark 5:19; Luke 8:16-18; 14:12-14; Romans 8:1-2; 12:1-2; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 5:1-2; Philippians 4:8-9; Colossians 4:5-6; 2 Timothy 4:2; Hebrews 13:15-16; 1 Peter 4:8-11