Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 3:12

12 Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies , kindness , humbleness of mind , meekness , long suffering .

As he had mentioned some particular vices of the old man, they were to put off, v. 8. he doth here infer that they might be compleat in Christ, there be particular vertues and graces of the new man they are to put on, or being new creatures continually to exercise themselves in.

Chosen of God before all time and effectually called in time from the rest of mankind see, Ioh. 15, 16. Rom. 8.29, 30. Eph. 1.4, 5.2 Thess. 2.13. Saints not onely by obsignation, but renewed by the sanctifying spirit, c. 1, 2. 1 Pet. 1, 2. beloved with a gratuitous and special love of complacency, Ioh. 4.10, 11. Ioh. 14.21. Rom. 1.7. 1 Thess. 1.4.

He would have us put on, i. e. exercise (being sanctified by the spirit) mercy, not simply, but according to the Hebrew phrase, bowels of mercies, i. e. tendernesses of compassions, resenting the miseries of our brethren as sharing with them in their sufferings, from our very heart, see Luk. 6.36. Rom. 12.15. Gal. 6.2. Eph. 4.32. Pet. 3.8.

Courtesie and goodness, Gal. 5.22. endeavouring to succour one another in all offices of benignity, 2 Cor. 6.6. 1 Pet. 5.14.

A sincere (not an affected) holiness of spirit see on, Eph. 4.2. Phil. 2, 3.

Gentleness and mildness receiving one another with an open heart and pleasant countenance, see Gal. 5.13, 23. & 6.1. 1 Thess. 2, 7.

Patience, bearing affronts and outrages with other vexations afflictions without exasperation, abiding sedate after many wrongs offered, c. 1.11. Act. 5.41. 2 Tim. 2.10. & 4.2. 1 Pet. 4.16.