Step One
"We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol-that
our lives had become unmanageable."
Step Two
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity."
Step Three
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him."
Step Four
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves."
Step Five
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Step Six
"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character."
Step Seven
"Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings."
Step Eight
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all."
Step Nine
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others."
Step Ten
"Continued to take personal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted it."
Step Eleven
"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."
Step Twelve
"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."