Based on an appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, this paper deals with the problem of the bounded real lemma for linear continuous-time systems with state delay. The system under consideration involves state time-varying time-delay. A sufficient condition for the system to possess a H∞-norm that is less than a prescribed level, is presented in a Linear matrix inequality(LMI) form which is dependent on both the size of timedelay and the size of its time-derivative. Due to that fewercross terms should be bounded, our result is less conservative. Finally, an example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our result.