diff --git a/col/01/21.md b/col/01/21.md
index 54fd7128c7..f3d71b0c94 100644
--- a/col/01/21.md
+++ b/col/01/21.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Paul makes it clear that God has now revealed that Christ exchanges the sin of G
 
 "There was a time when you Colossian believers also"
 
-# were strangers to God
+# were alienated
 
-"were like people whom God did not know" or "had pushed God away"
+were no longer living in loving relationship with God
 
diff --git a/col/02/14.md b/col/02/14.md
index 448c26784e..9efb1b65f5 100644
--- a/col/02/14.md
+++ b/col/02/14.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# He canceled the written record of debts that stood against us
+# He blotted out the written record of debts that stood against us
 
 Paul speaks of the way God forgives our sins as if it were the way a person, to whom many people owe money or goods, destroys the record of that debt so they do not have to pay him back. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
 
diff --git a/col/02/20.md b/col/02/20.md
index cdb3128a28..f7fc9363a7 100644
--- a/col/02/20.md
+++ b/col/02/20.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A believer is spiritually united with Christ. As Christ died, the believer has d
 
 # the elemental spirits of the world
 
-See how you translated this in [Colossians 2:8](../02/08.md).
+Possible meanings are 1) spiritual powers that some people thought control what happens on earth, or 2) the laws or moral principles of the world. See how you translated this in [Colossians 2:8](../02/08.md).
 
 # live as obligated to the world