- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After Abram returns from a military engagement, God promises Abram, who has had no children so far, both personal protection and family survival. Abram fears that if he has no offspring (his wife, Sarai, has always been barren, and they are both very old by this point), a household slave will end up inheriting his possessions. In other words, Abram worries that his own family will die with him. But God promises that in spite of apparently unfavorable circumstances, he will give Abram more descendants than can be counted. Abram’s trust in God’s promise is “reckoned […] to him as…