From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FORGIVEN occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... forgiven.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
It is by
forgiving that one is
forgiven.
2.
... forgiven.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
3.
... forgiven and
will have learned our lesson.
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we are
sorry for what we have done, and have the
honest desire to let
God take us to
better things, we
believe we will be
forgiven
and will have
learned our
lesson.
4.
... forgiven for
what he has done in ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If you
concede that your
employee is
ill, can he be
forgiven for what he has done in the
past?
5.
... forgiven, no
matter what we had thought ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
This
vital Step was also the
means by which we
began to
get the
feeling that we could be
forgiven, no
matter what we had
thought or done.
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