Steps & Scripture

The 12 Step Guides

One short book for each of the Twelve Steps, written to be read, not filled in. Download the guide for the step you're on, or all twelve. Free, with no email and no sign-up.

The twelve Steps & Scripture Step Guides, Step One: Honesty through Step Twelve: Service

Download all 12 guides One zip file, about 7 MB. Or pick one below.

What's in each guide

  • Where you are: a short look back at the steps before this one, so you can start mid-way.
  • What the step is, in plain words.
  • What Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions say, with page numbers for your own copies.
  • Scripture for the step, with short reflections.
  • How to work it, questions to think over with your sponsor, ideas for this week, and a prayer.

Each guide is 34 to 46 pages, sized like a small paperback (5.5 × 8.5 inches). Read it on your phone, or print it at home.

Read them with someone

The steps aren't meant to be worked alone. Take your guide to your sponsor, a pastor, or a friend in recovery, and talk through the questions together. Steps Four, Five, Eight and Nine are done with a person: the guides for those steps say how to get ready.

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 · ESV

Safety first. If you drink heavily every day, stopping suddenly can be dangerous. Talk to a doctor before you quit.

Jimmy, the AI sponsor for men
Jimmy
Sarah, the AI sponsor for women
Sarah

Talk a step over with Jimmy or Sarah

Jimmy and Sarah are AI sponsors who know the Twelve Steps and the Bible. They'll listen, walk the steps with you, and keep pointing you to real people: a meeting, a sponsor, a church.

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Common questions

Are the Step Guides really free?

Yes. Download any guide, or all twelve, with one click. There's no email, no account and no sign-up. Print as many copies as you like for yourself, your sponsor or your group.

How are the guides different from the workbook?

The workbook is for writing in: questions with lines, inventory pages, logs. The Step Guides are for reading. Each one walks through a single step in plain words, with Scripture, page numbers for your own copy of the books, questions to think over and ideas for the week.

I'm already on Step Seven. Do I need the first six?

No. Each guide stands on its own and starts with a short look back at the steps before it, so you can pick up the guide for the step you're on today.

Do I need my own copy of the books?

It helps. The guides quote the 1939 first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous and give fourth-edition page numbers, so you can read along. For Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions they give page numbers only, so read it in your own copy.

Are the guides affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous?

No. Steps & Scripture is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. or any recovery organization.

Quotations from Alcoholics Anonymous are from its 1939 first edition, which is in the public domain. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions is © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.; the guides give its page numbers only. Steps & Scripture is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. or any recovery organization.