Although the Bible Society in Macedonia was founded in 1994, its origins date back much earlier. In 1918, shortly after the First World War, the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) opened a representative office in Belgrade. Over the decades that followed, it coordinated activities with all Bible societies in the countries that later became part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1955, a representative of the Bible Society from Belgrade approached Gjorgji Miloshev (later Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, Gavril) to finalize details regarding the translation of the New Testament, which had already begun in 1949. The first translation of the New Testament into Macedonian was published in 1967, while a revised edition was released in 1975. The complete edition of the Holy Scriptures in Macedonian, however, was published in 1990. Several years later, with the assistance of the United Bible Societies (UBS), the founding assembly of the Bible Society in the Republic of Macedonia was held on 29th October 1993. In 2019, it was renamed into Macedonian Bible Society.

The Bible Society officially commenced its operations on 1st May 1994 and Petko Zlateski, a professor at the Orthodox Faculty of Theology "Saint Clement of Ohrid" in Skopje was appointed as the General Secretary. In June 2020, Prof. Dr. Gjoko Gjorgjevski was elected as the new General Secretary.

The translation, printing, and distribution of the Bible are at the core of the activities of the Macedonian Bible Society. Its main task is to make the Holy Scriptures available to the Macedonian people in an understandable – Macedonian language and, at the same time, to help people comprehend the importance of the biblical message in their lives.