receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Paine, basing his conclusion on the construction of the Greek, says, "This is not a future, but a present reference,"[25] thus making the salvation to be that which they already had.  Of course, this harmonizes with the view in Acts that those who were "being saved" were added to the church (Acts 2:47).  There was surely a sense in which Peter's addressees were already saved, that is, from "their old sins," as Peter explained in  2 Peter 1:9.