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The Twelve Steps and their Biblical Comparisons

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors.  That our lives had become unmanageable.
   I know that 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.  (Romans 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.  (Philippians 2:13)
   
   
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.
   Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.  (Romans 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.  (Lamentations 3:40)

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