The employee engaging in some form of work expects paid wages for his efforts. In this type of relationship, the employer becomes contractually bound to give the employee his due wages after he has engaged in work. Their relationship is reciprocal. The employee is duty-bound to work for the one who hired him and the employer is duty-bound to pay the employee for his labor. To the Jew, Abraham was justified because of his obedience to the law, his act of being circumcised and his obedience of offering Isaac on the altar. Paul’s intention was to show them that Abraham was already justified before he acted upon any of these noble tasks. God could never be obligated to any man. This is not the relationship He desired with man. Morris explains