underwrites everything he does, which brings Paul back to the subject of our “sufficiency” in verses 5 and 6. The word “sufficiency” or “adequacy” is central to Paul’s argument in these opening chapters of 2 Corinthians; for Paul, our qualification as God’s co-workers is based entirely on God himself as the One who makes the inadequate adequate. There is nothing to trust in or about ourselves. But God has done all that it takes and more to make us “sufficient”—and what has he done? Verse 6 unlocks