The KJV is a vital part of the English-speaking world

For [four] centuries the Authorized, or King James, Version has been the Bible of the English-speaking world. Its simple, majestic Anglo-Saxon tongue, its clear, sparkling style, its directness and force of utterance have made it the model in language, style, dignity of some of the choicest writers for the last two centuries.

Its phrasing is woven into much of our noblest literature; and its style, which to an astonishing degree is merely the style of the original authors of the Bible, has exerted very great influence in molding the idea of simplicity, directness, and clarity which now dominates the writing of English.

It has endeared itself to the hearts and lives of millions of Christians and has molded the characters of leaders in every walk of life. During all these centuries the King James Version has become a vital part of the English-speaking world, socially, morally, religiously, and politically.”

—Ira Maurice Price (1856-1939, Baptist professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, among the University's original faculty)