2 Peter 2 describes false teachers among us. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies, and will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. They are proud and arrogant, and they act like "unthinking animals", behaving by instinct and indulge themselves in evil pleasures. They delight in deception and "are as useless as dried-up springs". Peter says they would have been better off if they had never known the way to righteousness, since they reject the command to live a holy life. They prove true the proverb: "A washed pig returns to the mud". Their destruction is their reward as they live under God's curse.