Leviticus 19:1-3

When they translated the word "fear" there, they softened it somewhat. But if you look in the margin, as my Bible points you to the margin, it says, "You shall revere your parents." That's a stronger word. It is a word that is normally reserved for God. We revere God, but God gives direction here to us to revere our parents. Parents have an awesomely high calling, and that calling is to be respected by the children, because that reverence that God expects precedes the reverence God expects to come to Him when that relationship with God is introduced. That reverence for parents is to get us ready to reverence God.