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Great find!!! The word in Greek is φιλήδονος (philēdonos) from φίλος (philos) and ἡδονή (hēdonē) or in the plural φιλήδονοι. Textus Receptus 3:4 προδόται προπετεῖς τετυφωμένοι φιλήδονοι μᾶλλον ἢ φιλόθεοι (philotheoi)

Exactly, kochiekoch , thanks for bringing that up! It's still 1st or 2nd century CE when there were still practicing Epicureans. In fact: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/bengel/2_timothy/3.htm φιλήδονοι, lovers of pleasure) An epithet of the Epicureans. Pleasure destroys the love and sense of God. Such are our Epicureans. Bengel was writing in the 1600s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albrecht_Bengel