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Surah 67. Al-Mulk, Ayah 13

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وَأَسِرُّوا۟ قَوْلَكُمْ أَوِ ٱجْهَرُوا۟ بِهِۦٓ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ
Waasirroo qawlakum awi ijharoo bihi innahu AAaleemun bi tha ti a l ss udoor i
AND [know, O men, that] whether you keep your beliefs10 secret or state them openly, He has full knowledge indeed of all that is in [your] hearts.11
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., He knows why one person believes in Him and another rejects this belief; hence, He takes man's innermost motivations, abilities and inabilities fully into account.

While the primary significance of the noun qawl is "a saying" or "an utterance", it is often used tropically in the sense of "a statement", i.e., of a belief, an opinion, a teaching, a doctrine, etc. In the present context it evidently relates to man's beliefs in general, be they affirmative or negative: hence the plural form in my rendering of this term.

Whether you speak in secret or aloud, surely He is aware of all that is in the breasts.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Whether you speak secretly or openly- He surely knows best what is 'hidden' in the heart.
  - Mustafa Khattab
And keep your opinion secret or proclaim it, lo! He is Knower of all that is in the breasts (of men).
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
And whether ye hide your word or publish it He certainly has (full) knowledge of the secrets of (all) hearts.
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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