Yourselves

Acts 20:28 KJV

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

The Apostle first exhorted the preachers to take heed to themselves before their flock. They can do little good for the people of God who have done no good for themselves.

Gill has good notes concerning this subject;

"…take heed

to their gifts,

to use and improve them, and not neglect them;

to their time,

that they spend it aright, and not squander it away; and to their spirit, temper, and passions, that they are not governed by them; and

to their lives and conversations,

that they be exemplary to those who are under their care; and

to their doctrine,

that it be according to the Scriptures; that it be the doctrine of Christ, and the same with the apostles; that it be according to godliness, and that it tends to edification; that it be sound and incorrupt, pure and unmixed, and all of a piece and consistent with itself; and that they be not infected and carried away with errors and heresies"