“The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.” Proverbs 13:14 NIV
God’s word is the source of life for all who partake of it. Reading God’s word gives us knowledge of right and wrong, knowledge of what is expected of us from God. Receiving the teaching from God’s word and in turn teaching others what is in God’s word is how we share the love of God. It is how we are able to tell others about God, providing them a choice to choose to live for God or for the world.
The snares of death are on the path to hell. The snares are the enticing things of this world that the devil puts in front of us to lure us to his way of living, away from God. If we accept those enticing things and live the life the devil wants us to live then we are walking that path to hell and hell is a real place that is filled with people who are eternally separated from God and are tormented every moment of every hour or every day.
Our responsibility as followers of Christ is to teach others about God and to resist those snares or enticing ways of living that are of the world.