12 Steps & Related Scripture
If interested, this was passed on to me from another 12 stepper. I like it and wanted to share. Please, as always, take what you need and leave the rest. I have some others that will be added later. Tami
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become
unmanageable.
I know
nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to
do what is good, but I cannot carry it out (Rom. 7:18)
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
For it
is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. (Phil.
2:13)
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - which is your spiritual worship.
(Rom. 12:1)
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let us
examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. (Lam. 3:40)
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you
may be healed. (James 5:16a)
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humble
yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (James 4:10)
7. Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends
to them all.
Do to
others as you would have them to do you (Luke 6:31)
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so
would injure them or others.
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that
your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the
altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your
gift. (Matt. 5:23-24)
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
So, if
you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall. (1 Cor. 10:12)
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
Let the
word of Christ dwell in you richly. (Col. 3:16a)
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to
carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our
affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. (Gal. 6:1)
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