Elemental Powers Shamed in Public Spectacle Lyrics

And even when you were dead in transgressions
And the uncircumcision of your flesh
He brought you to life along with him
Having forgiven us all our transgressions

Obliterating the bond against us
With its legal claims, which was opposed to us
He also removed it from our midst
Nailing it to the cross!

Despoiling the principalities and the powers
He made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it!

Let no one, then, pass judgment on you
In matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath
These are shadows of things to come; the reality belongs to Christ

Let no one disqualify you
Delighting in self-abasement
And worship of angels, taking his stand on visions
Inflated without reason by his fleshly mind
And not holding closely to the head, from whom the whole body

Supported and held together by its ligaments and bonds
Achieves the growth that comes from God
Inflated without reason by his fleshly mind
Why do you submit to regulations as if you were still living in the world?