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We admitted we were powerless over our problem -- that our lives had become unmanageable. (Romans 7:18-23) |
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Came to believe that God, through his son Jesus Christ, could restore us to sanity. (Romans 7:24-8:2, 1 Corinthians 10:12) |
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of GOD. (John 1:12) |
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (James 1:21-25, Psalm 139:23-24) |
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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (1 John 1:9, James 5:16) |
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were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. (James 4:7-10) |
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Humbly ask him to remove our shortcomings. (1 John 1:9, Hebrew 4:14-5:3) |
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Made a list of all we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. (Luke 19:8-10) |
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. (Matthew 5:23-24) |
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Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. (Psalm 32:1-7, Philippians 2:12-13) |
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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with GOD, praying only for knowledge of his will for us, and the power to carry it out. (Philippians 4:5-9, 3:10-14) |
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all of life. (Philippians 2:3-5, Matthew 28:19-20) |
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