In the year 1604 James Charles Stuart was crowned as the new king of England and Scotland, being that same year when a reference was carried out where the task of a new translation of the Bible was conceived, this as a result of the points made by the Protestant Puritan faction, which found in the English versions made up to that moment a great amount of inconsistencies and errors.  Thus, in 1607, by mandate of King James, 47 academic scholars, divided into 6 groups, were appointed to create a better English translation of the Bible.

Three of the groups focused on the translation of the Old Testament, two groups on the King James Version New Testament, and the remaining group on the so-called Apocryphal Books. The new translation of the Bible was published in 1611, its lexicon and syntax made this version gain popularity, and its impact was not only in theological terms, but also literary, influencing the King James Bible in important later writers.

By the first half of the 18th century, the King James Bible had become undisputedly the most widely used English translation of the Bible. This lasted until the late 1970s, when a group of scholars began to renovate the King James Version to adapt it to modern English. This translation was published in three parts, and was completed in 1982, being called the New King James Bible, and like its early English predecessor, it is the most popular English translation of the Bible.