Word Analysis
"wrong" in the Big Book
16
occurrences in 15 passages
By Chapter
Ch. 1: Bill's Story1
Ch. 2: There Is a Solution1
Ch. 4: We Agnostics1
Ch. 5: How It Works4
Ch. 6: Into Action3
Ch. 7: Working with Others1
Ch. 9: The Family Afterward5
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Chapter 1: Bill's Story(1 passage)
I expressed my entire willingness to approach these individuals, admitting my wrong.
Chapter 1: Bill's Story · Page 13Read in PDF →
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution(1 passage)
He has a positive genius for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution · Page 21Read in PDF →
Chapter 4: We Agnostics(1 passage)
Our friend’s gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: “If there is a God, He certainly hasn’t done anything for me!’’ But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: “Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?’’ While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell.
Chapter 4: We Agnostics · Page 56Read in PDF →
Chapter 5: How It Works(4 passages)
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11.
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 59Read in PDF →
parent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 66Read in PDF →
To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got.
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 66Read in PDF →
The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore.
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 66Read in PDF →
Chapter 6: Into Action(3 passages)
But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 77Read in PDF →
He felt that he had done a wrong he could not possibly make right.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 80Read in PDF →
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 86Read in PDF →
Chapter 7: Working with Others(1 passage)
The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track.
Chapter 7: Working with Others · Page 98Read in PDF →
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward(4 passages)
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 129Read in PDF →
he could not, for his drinking placed him constantly in the wrong.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 131Read in PDF →
Of course our friend was wrong—dead wrong.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 135Read in PDF →
She sees she was wrong to make a burning issue out of such a matter when his more serious ailments were being rapidly cured.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 135Read in PDF →