The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:12
Put on, therefore, as elect of God, holy, [and] beloved ( Colossians 3:9 , Colossians 3:14 ; Ephesians 4:24 ; Ephesians 1:3-5 ; Galatians 3:27 ; Romans 13:14 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; Titus 1:1 ; Romans 8:28-39 ; 1 Peter 1:1 , 1 Peter 1:2 ; 1 John 3:1 ). The terms "elect," "holy" (same as "saints," Colossians 1:2 ; see note), "beloved," apply alike and separately to those addressed. Bengel, Meyer, Alford, Ellicott... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Colossians 3:1-17
The true Christian life. From above only can we be raised. There is no salvation in mere antipathy. Disgust at the vanities of life, repulsion from earthly things, will of itself never lift us beyond them; it needs the superior influence of heavenly things to do that. This the Colossian errorists did not rightly understand; or they could not have made ceremonial purifications and bodily austerities the way of holiness, the means of reaching spiritual perfection. "Touch not, taste not" ( ... read more